Dr. Pye is a Founder and President of Viridis Graduate Institute (Ecological Psychology and Environmental Humanities - viridis.edu). As an executive director for international marine nonprofits, Dr. Pye worked with numerous NGOs to co-develop the Eastern Tropical Pacific Biological Seascape Corridor with the Ministers of the Environment from Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador.
Dr. Pye has multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals and serves on the Editorial Board for Ecopsychology Journal. Dr. Pye lectures at Viridis Graduate Institute, and the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). She formerly taught at Pacifica Graduate Institute (clinical psychology, counseling psychology, depth psychology, and mythological studies), and at Kaweah Delta Mental Health Hospital Psychiatric Residency Program. Forthcoming textbook: Fundamentals of Ecological Psychology, Routledge.
Research
Her research interests in ecological psychology are reconfiguring detrimental narratives underpinning behavior and practices destructive to the environmental and each other.
Education
- Ph.D., and M.A., Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA
- B.S., Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Courses Taught
- ENV S 129: Ecopsychology
- ENV S 188: Environmental Ethics