Lindsay Branham

Biography

Lindsay Branham is an Emmy-nominated and visionary film director, a social scientist, environmental psychologist and author. She is the founder of the social and environmental production studio NOVO, with media reaching 25M+ worldwide. She pioneered community-based collaborative journalism and documentary film interventions to address complex social issues like stigma towards former child combatants, elephant poaching and inter-religious violence. Her storytelling path began with a Pulitzer Prize win for National Reporting in 2005 for an investigative series with the New York Times on illegal deaths at railroad crossings. Lindsay is currently completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge on kinship between humans and the Earth where she is a Cambridge Trust scholar. Her first book Heartwood is forthcoming in 2025 on forest ecology, embodiment and healing and she is committed to the spiral-like relationship between storytelling, ecology and justice.