Speaker Bios

These speakers were confirmed for the Spring 2020 event. We’re in the process of re-confirming many of them for the virtual conference.

Michael J. Sangiacomo

President & Chief Executive Officer

Recology, Inc.

Ana Carvalho

Board Member

Zero Waste International Alliance

Sophia Huda

Vice President

Ohio Recycling Coalition

Jacky Brown

Vice President Of Retail

Goodwill Industries of San Diego County

Susan Collins

President

Container Recycling Institute

Timonie Hood

Zero Waste & Green Building Coordinator

U.S. EPA

Christie Keith

International Coordinator and US Executive Director

GAIA

Sarah D OBrien

Director of Programs

Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council

Esra Tat

Associate Director

Zero Waste Europe

Heidi Sanborn

Executive Director

National Stewardship Action Council

Scott Cassel

Founder & CEO

Product Stewardship Institute

Terry McDonald

Executive Director

St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County, Inc.

Clytie Binder

Community Composting Hubs in Brisbane Australia

Brisbane City Council, Australia

Martin Bourque

Executive Director

Ecology Center

Sue Beets-Atkinson

Sr. Director of Sustainability

SBM Management/ GBCI TRUE Zero Waste

Pal Martensson

Zero Waste in Amazonia

Let´s Do It World

Patrick Tierney

CEO and Cofounder

Revolution Systems

Rory Bakke

Principal

Sustainable Concepts Studio

Will Bakx

Soil Scientist

Sonoma Compost/Renewable Sonoma

Julie Sands Tyne

Supervising Recycling Specialist

City of San Diego

Alec Cooley

Senior Advisor

Busch Systems

Faye Christoforo

Co-Executive Director

Post-Landfill Action Network

Alice Koehler

SVP Marketing

WasteZero

Leslie Lukacs

Executive Director

Zero Waste Sonoma

Mary Curtiss

Director of Energy and Sustainability

HP

Nina Goodrich

Executive Director

GreenBlue/SPC

Kaity Robbins

Zero Waste Manager

Boston University

Ruth Abbe

President/Co-Chair

Zero Waste USA/Global Recycling Council of CRRA

Nina Bellucci Butler

CEO

More Recycling

Clarissa Morawski

CEO

Reloop Platform

Samantha Sommer

Program Manager

ReThink Disposable

Dave Bennink

Director

Building Deconstruction Institute

Miriam Gordon

Indisposable Communities Director

UPSTREAM

Lisa Pellegrino

Strategic Partnerships Manager

TerraCycle

Jamie Kaminski

Director of Policy

Zero Waste Canada

Gary Liss

Co-Chair, NRC Conference Committee and Vice-President, Zero Waste USA

National Recycling Coalition

David Pinsky

Senior Plastics Campaigner

Greenpeace USA

Marvin Hayes

Program Manager

Baltimore Compost Collective Program

Joseph Button

Director of Sustainability

Straus Family Creamery

Maggie Clarke

Zero Waste Researcher

Maggie Clarke Environmental

Lisa Skumatz

President / Principal

SERA

Christienne de Tournay Birkhahn

Chair

City of Berkeley Zero Waste Commission

Kourtnii Brown

Founder and Director

Common Compost

Clare Miflin

Founder

Center for Zero Waste Design

Kate Bailey

Policy & Research Director

Eco-Cycle

Matthew Cotton

Owner

Integrated Waste Management Consulting, LLC

Mandi McKay

Sustainability Manager

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co

Angela A. Moore

Facilities and Sustainability Coordinator

Missouri Historical Society

Nathan Proctor

Director, Campaign for the Right to Repair

U.S. PIRG

Sue Beets- Atkinson

Senior Director of Sustainability

SBM Management, LLC

Sophie Hahn

Vice Mayor

City of Berkeley

Caroline Mitchell

Waste Reduction and Recycling Lead Specialist

City of Fort Collins

Arley Owens

Executive Director

Ohio Recycling Coalition

Kate M Davenport

Co President

Eureka Recycling

Leah Tischler

Site Manager

SBM Sustainability Team

Portia Sinnott

Program Director

Zero Waste USA

Stephanie Barger

Director - TRUE Zero Waste Program

U.S. Green Building Council

Julie Muir

Zero Waste Manager

Stanford University

Danner Doud-Martin

Associate Director, International Business Development Program and Haas Staff lead for Zero Waste and Sustainability Task Force

Haas School of Business

Neil Edgar

Executive Director

California Compost Coalition