Daphne Wysham

Daphne Wysham is Washington State Senior Campaigner for Food and Agriculture at Friends of the Earth, where she advances policies supporting a just transition toward healthy, regenerative food systems. Her work focuses on reducing methane pollution from industrial livestock production and expanding climate-friendly food procurement in schools and public institutions.

Wysham is the founding CEO and strategic advisor to Methane Action and co-coordinator of the Methane Emergency Brake campaign, an international effort to elevate methane as a top climate priority. She is also founder and board chair of This Land, a nonprofit advancing policies to protect land, water, and air in Oregon and Washington.

Previously, Wysham spent two decades at the Institute for Policy Studies, where she founded its climate justice program and helped lead campaigns challenging fossil fuel financing by institutions such as the World Bank. An award-winning writer and commentator, her work has appeared in major international media. She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University and lives in Port Townsend, Washington.