Lori Pye

Lori Pye is a Lecturer and the Founder & President of Viridis Graduate Institute, focusing on Ecological Psychology and Environmental Humanities. She concurrently lectures at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). Her professional roles include executive directorships with international marine nonprofits, collaborating with governments to develop the Eastern Tropical Pacific Biological Seascape Corridor.

Dr. Pye holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Pacifica Graduate Institute (Santa Barbara, CA) and a B.S. from Texas A&M University. Her research reconfigures destructive environmental narratives through ecological psychology frameworks, emphasizing behavioral and ethical dimensions.

She serves on the Editorial Board of the Ecopsychology Journal and is authoring a forthcoming textbook Fundamentals of Ecological Psychology (Routledge). Teaching spans courses in ecopsychology, environmental ethics, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, depth psychology, and mythological studies at multiple institutions including Pacifica Graduate Institute and Kaweah Delta Mental Health Hospital.