Lindsay Branham

Lindsay Branham, PhD, is an environmental psychologist, Emmy-nominated film director and eco-doula exploring embodied and erotic ecology. She hopes to inspire kinship between humans and the living world. She is the founder of Novo and The Heartwood Institute, and for two decades has directed collaborative film-based interventions to improve human rights and ecological crises. Her films include Zo Kwe Zo (All Are Human) (Mountainfilm 2017), The Deep Place (Mountainfilm 2018) and Tunainuana: Together We Rise (Mountainfilm 2024), which had its world premiere at Mountainfilm. Branham holds a doctorate in psychology from the University of Cambridge and has been featured in The New York Times, BBC, CNN and National Geographic. She is a regular columnist for The Aspen Times. She lives in Los Angeles, California and Colorado. For more, visit heartwood.institute.