Institute for Cultural Change

Lori Pye, Ph.D.
Lori Pye received her Bachelor's of Science from Texas A& M University, and her M.A and Ph.D. in Mythological Studies with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, California.

Lori has founded several international nonprofit organizations and worked in executive management with marine conservation organizations such as Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society and the Channel Islands National Park Board of Directors. As an environmentalist, Dr. Pye worked with NGO's around the world to co-develop the Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape Corridor with the Ministers of the Environment from Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador. She has led international conferences on diverse issues as Nature and Human Nature, Changing Perspectives (2007) featuring James Hillman, David Abrams, Susan Griffin, Ginette Paris, Carolyn Merchant, Dick Russell, Rick Tarnas, Edgar Casey; and The Mythology of Violence (2008) featuring Thomas Moore, Chris Hedges, Melissa Farley, Sarah Husain; and most recently The Aesthetic Nature of Change (2010) featuring John Ehrenfeld, Andrew Beath, Ernest Rossi and James Hollis.

Dr. Pye teaches Ecopsychology at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB), Ecology Concepts and Applications for Ecopsychology at Naropa University, Human Ecology at Antioch University, and Mythology & Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She founded and serves as the director for the Institute for Cultural Change.

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