Mandy Bratton

Dr. Mandy Bratton is the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Global Sustainable Development and a Founding Director of the Changemaker Institute at the University of California San Diego. The Center for Global Sustainable Development houses the award-winning Global TIES and Global Changemaker Scholars programs, which inspire students to collaborate with communities to co-create innovative solutions to urgent problems aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The Changemaker Institute serves as the nucleus of UC San Diego’s ecosystem for changemaking and changemaker education and provides a supportive infrastructure for interdisciplinary, cross-campus collaboration in research, education, community engagement, and advocacy.

Dr. Bratton earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin and previously served as a senior faculty member in Psychology and Human Development and Interim Associate Dean at Prescott College for the Liberal Arts, the Environment, and Social Justice. Additionally, she holds a Public Leadership Credential from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

With a passion for global education, Dr. Bratton has sailed around the world three times with the Semester at Sea Global Studies Program. She is a president emeritus of its alumni association and serves as an advisory member of its Board of Trustees. She holds a faculty appointment as a Continuing Lecturer. Her primary interests as a scholar, teacher, practitioner, and global citizen include sustainable development, gender, leadership, ethics, and advancing social and environmental justice.