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Lindsay Branham, PhD, is an environmental psychologist, Emmy-nominated film director and eco-doula exploring embodied and erotic ecology. She is the founder of NOVO, and for two decades she has directed collaborative film-based interventions to improve human rights and ecological crises. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Cambridge and has been featured by 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.

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 is the key capacity driving an intimate, lasting connection with the Earth that motivates pro-environmental behavior — a finding that bridges environmental psychology, embodied cognition, and deep ecology.

Lindsay founded 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 across 25+ countries, with measurable policy outcomes at every level of government — from the US Congress to the United Nations. She currently serves on the Aspen City Council's Rights of Nature initiative to grant legal standing to the Roaring Fork River watershed.

She writes a regular environmental column for The Aspen Times and has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, and National Geographic.