Lindsay Branham
About the Teacher
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Dr. Lindsay Branham is an environmental psychologist, Emmy-nominated film director, and eco-doula. Her debut book, Heartwood: The Wisdom and Healing Kinship of Trees (Hachette, March 10, 2026), is a deeply personal and rigorously researched account of homecoming, wholeness, and healing — a lyrical exploration of how trees can dissolve the fissure between humans and the living world, and why that bond may be our greatest hope against climate collapse.
Her PhD research at the University of Cambridge, "The Body of the World," pioneered the discovery that interoceptive awareness—our eighth sense—is the key capacity driving an intimate, lasting connection with the Earth that motivates pro-environmental behavior. This finding bridges environmental psychology, embodied cognition, and deep ecology.
Lindsay is the founder of Novo Films, a social and environmental impact studio whose film-based interventions have reached 200 million people and raised over $80 million for human and environmental rights efforts across 25+ countries, with measurable policy outcomes at every level of government — from the US Congress to the United Nations. She is currently pioneering a Rights of Nature initiative to grant legal standing to the Roaring Fork River and watershed in Pitkin County.
She writes a regular environmental column for The Aspen Times and has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, and National Geographic.
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Her PhD research at the University of Cambridge, "The Body of the World," pioneered the discovery that interoceptive awareness—our eighth sense—is the key capacity driving an intimate, lasting connection with the Earth that motivates pro-environmental behavior. This finding bridges environmental psychology, embodied cognition, and deep ecology.
Lindsay is the founder of Novo Films, a social and environmental impact studio whose film-based interventions have reached 200 million people and raised over $80 million for human and environmental rights efforts across 25+ countries, with measurable policy outcomes at every level of government — from the US Congress to the United Nations. She is currently pioneering a Rights of Nature initiative to grant legal standing to the Roaring Fork River and watershed in Pitkin County.
She writes a regular environmental column for The Aspen Times and has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, and National Geographic.
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