Tiffany Raether, MA, is a PhD candidate in Depth Psychology, focusing on Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Eco-Psychologies. Born and raised in California, she comes from a family lineage that traces back to an Indigenous village in the mountains near Shanghai, the island of Taiwan, Germany, and a rural farm in Wisconsin. As a mixed-race child, Tiffany grew up in a household that held both deep love and the tensions that arise between worlds. This early, embodied cross-cultural foundation has shaped her capacity to locate harmony and inhabit the generative thresholds that emerge where multiple worlds intersect.  

For over a decade, Tiffany Raether has learned from Indigenous teachers and leaders across the Americas, India, and China. Initially, Tiffany was under the tutelage of Native American teachers, where she not only had the privilege of learning and healing through spiritual practices and Indigenous knowledge, but also gained a deeper understanding of the difficult truths associated with America’s colonial history that persist today. She also holds over 500 hours of yoga teacher and meditation training and has taught yoga and meditation for the past 10 years, experiences that further shaped her understanding of embodiment, relationality, nervous system awareness, and contemplative practice.

After living through the devastating Thomas Fire that swept through her hometown in California in 2017, burning approximately 281,893 acres, Tiffany was drawn to study psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute to better understand why humanity was not taking climate change seriously. She also sought to deepen her studies in decolonial depth psychology and Indigenous ontologies to more meaningfully ally with her Indigenous friends and to make sense of the contradictions she encountered while navigating spiritual communities in the West. Over time, she came to see that these lines of inquiry were deeply interconnected.

Her graduate work brought her to learn from different communities across Latin America. While engaged in research with Earth Charter International at the U.N. University for Peace in Costa Rica, Tiffany investigated the meaning, practice, and limitations of “sustainable development.” She also learned how different nations model governance that better integrates environmental conservation and ecosystem regeneration for planetary well-being. 

Tiffany’s curiosity and research brought her to Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest, where she learned from Indigenous leaders and collectives that are working collaboratively to rematriate their lands, advocate for policy change, and restore their ecosystems. 

Today, Tiffany integrates the depth of her graduate research with her background in media, storytelling, and operations to support work that advances ethical biodiversity conservation, Indigenous sovereignty, and collective well-being. She works across writing, brand development, impact communications, and photography - helping individuals and organizations articulate their vision with clarity, integrity, and resonance.

Her approach is shaped by lived and embodied experience: the realities of frontline work, the demands of academia, and the complexities of mission-driven environments, all unfolding within a broader moment of the collapse of dominant systems and the reimagining of humanity’s relationship to the living world. She brings a systems-aware, relational lens to her work, supporting both organizational development and individual expression in ways that are grounded, strategic, and deeply human.

Guided by the example of her mentors and the Indigenous collectives she has had the privilege of learning from, Tiffany understands love not as an abstraction but as a practice expressed through care, attention, accountability, and the ways we choose to show up for one another and the world. Alongside this, she recognizes joy as a vital, sustaining force that nourishes resilience, deepens connection, and reminds us what we are working to protect. This orientation informs everything she creates, from the stories she tells to the spaces she helps shape.