Laura O’Brien is a private pediatric occupational therapist in Des Plaines, IL with over thirty years of experience in sensory integration, children’s yoga, ASD, and social/emotional needs. She identifies climate change as one of the most pressing threats to children’s occupational well-being.

Louise Weissel is an occupational therapist working as a consultant at Sustain-Ability Access Consultancy and as the coordinator of the Greener Health Project in Wiltshire, England where her work connects individual health and ecological sustainability.

Ashlyn Southard is a recent MOT graduate from Saint Louis University. In the summer of 2022, she completed an internship at Grand Teton National Park with a focus on cognitive and sensory resources for families and staff including visual schedules, social stories, a sensory walk, and sensory regulation resources

Jill Clancy, OTR/L, CNS is a founding member of OTEA and an early advocate for the consideration of climate change in occupational therapy practice, writing her undergraduate thesis on ego-ecology and further exploring the idea in her master's capstone on environment and wellbeing.

With decades of experience and an extensive understanding of the relationships between climate change and human occupation, Dr. Moses Ikiugu is a driving force for sustainability in OT practice.

Justin is using his lens as an occupational therapist to explore the intersection between occupation, environment, and resilience as it relates to experiences with wildfires among Indigenous peoples.

Sam is at the forefront of student-led research investigating the intersection between climate change and occupational therapy through his doctoral capstone project at Washington University in St. Louis.

As an Associate Professor of Clinical Occupational Therapy at the University of Southern California Dr. Dieterle teaches, practices, and researches the promotion of sustainable occupations.

An accomplished practitioner, educator, design consultant, researcher, and author, Dr. Wagenfeld has worn almost every hat available in the occupational therapy wardrobe.

Through her work as a climate action coach, prior educator, and member of both the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council’s ‘Women in Sustainability’ and the Wisconsin Health Professionals for Climate Action, Kelly aims to “normalize climate solutions and climate resilience talk”