Britt Wray, PhD is the Director of the Chair’s Special Initiative on Climate Change and Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Stanford Medicine. She is the author of 2 books, the most recent being Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis, an impassioned generational perspective on how to stay sane amid the climate emergency, which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award.

Wray has spoken at TED and the World Economic Forum, and her work has been featured in The New Yorker, New York Times, Washington Post, among other publications. She holds a Climate Psychology Certificate from the California Institute of Integral Studies and is a Fellow in the Climate Health Organizing Fellowship offered by Harvard C-Change. She is the Founder of the weekly Gen Dread newsletter, which shares insights and expert advice for coping with climate distress and taking climate action.