diff --git a/lib/sycamore/sycamore/executor.py b/lib/sycamore/sycamore/executor.py
index e8e885185..ec03abea0 100644
--- a/lib/sycamore/sycamore/executor.py
+++ b/lib/sycamore/sycamore/executor.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import logging
+from threading import Lock
 from typing import Callable, Iterable, TYPE_CHECKING
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -9,6 +10,7 @@
 from sycamore.plan_nodes import Node
 
 
+ray_init_lock = Lock()
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
@@ -42,22 +44,23 @@ def _ray_logging_setup():
 def sycamore_ray_init(**ray_args) -> None:
     import ray
 
-    if ray.is_initialized():
-        logging.warning("Ignoring explicit request to initialize ray when it is already initialized")
-        return
+    with ray_init_lock:
+        if ray.is_initialized():
+            logging.warning("Ignoring explicit request to initialize ray when it is already initialized")
+            return
 
-    if "logging_level" not in ray_args:
-        ray_args.update({"logging_level": logging.INFO})
+        if "logging_level" not in ray_args:
+            ray_args.update({"logging_level": logging.INFO})
 
-    if "runtime_env" not in ray_args:
-        ray_args["runtime_env"] = {}
+        if "runtime_env" not in ray_args:
+            ray_args["runtime_env"] = {}
 
-    if "worker_process_setup_hook" not in ray_args["runtime_env"]:
-        # logging.error("Spurious log 0: If you do not see spurious log 1 & 2,
-        # log messages are being dropped")
-        ray_args["runtime_env"]["worker_process_setup_hook"] = _ray_logging_setup
+        if "worker_process_setup_hook" not in ray_args["runtime_env"]:
+            # logging.error("Spurious log 0: If you do not see spurious log 1 & 2,
+            # log messages are being dropped")
+            ray_args["runtime_env"]["worker_process_setup_hook"] = _ray_logging_setup
 
-    ray.init(**ray_args)
+        ray.init(**ray_args)
 
 
 def visit_parallelism(n: Node):
diff --git a/lib/sycamore/sycamore/tests/integration/test_executor.py b/lib/sycamore/sycamore/tests/integration/test_executor.py
index ab45e5e7a..6448d9417 100644
--- a/lib/sycamore/sycamore/tests/integration/test_executor.py
+++ b/lib/sycamore/sycamore/tests/integration/test_executor.py
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
+from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
+import tempfile
+import sycamore
 from sycamore.context import ExecMode
+from sycamore.tests.config import TEST_DIR
 import sycamore.tests.unit.test_executor as unit
 
 
@@ -6,3 +10,29 @@ class TestPrepare(unit.TestPrepare):
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
         self.exec_mode = ExecMode.RAY
+
+def test_multiple_ray_init():
+    import ray
+
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tempdir:
+        context = sycamore.init(exec_mode=ExecMode.RAY)
+
+        def write():
+            (
+                context.read.materialize(path=TEST_DIR / "resources/data/materialize/json_writer")
+                    .write.json(tempdir)
+            )
+
+        num_workers = 10
+        executor = ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=num_workers)
+        futures = [executor.submit(write) for _ in range(num_workers)]
+        got = 0
+        for future in futures:
+            e = future.exception()
+            if e is not None:
+                assert False, e
+            future.result()
+            got += 1
+
+        assert got == num_workers
+        executor.shutdown()
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