Britt Wray

Dr. Britt Wray is the director of the chair’s special initiative on climate change and mental health in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford Medicine. She is the author of two books, the most recent being Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis, which is an impassioned generational perspective on how to stay sane amid the climate emergency, and 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, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, among other publications. She's currently a fellow in the Climate Health Organizing Fellowship offered by Harvard C-Change.