Speaker Bios

Joseph Button

Director of Sustainability

Straus Family Creamery

Angela A. Moore

Facilities and Sustainability Coordinator

Missouri Historical Society

Christie Keith

International Coordinator and US Executive Director

GAIA

Portia Sinnott

Program Director

Zero Waste USA

Martin Bourque

Executive Director

Ecology Center

Scott Cassel

Founder & CEO

Product Stewardship Institute

Patrick Tierney

CEO and Cofounder

Revolution Systems

Caroline Mitchell

Waste Reduction and Recycling Lead Specialist

City of Fort Collins

Jesse Arreguin

Mayor

City of Berkeley

Maggie Clarke

Zero Waste Researcher

Maggie Clarke Environmental

Julie Muir

Zero Waste Manager

Stanford University

Ruth Abbe

President/Co-Chair

Zero Waste USA/Global Recycling Council of CRRA

Jamie Kaminski

Director of Policy

Zero Waste Canada

Christienne de Tournay Birkhahn

Chair

City of Berkeley Zero Waste Commission

Danner Doud-Martin

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

Haas School of Business

Lisa Pellegrino

Strategic Partnerships Manager

TerraCycle

Will Bakx

Soil Scientist

Sonoma Compost/Renewable Sonoma

Dave Bennink

Director

Building Deconstruction Institute

Heidi Sanborn

Executive Director

National Stewardship Action Council

Marvin Hayes

Program Manager

Baltimore Compost Collective Program

Nicole Gaetjens

Zero Waste Program Manager

Jones Lang LaSalle

Samantha Sommer

Program Manager

ReThink Disposable

Mark A Funkhouser

Director of Sustainability and Custodial Services

Chumash Casino Resort

Neil Edgar

Executive Director

California Compost Coalition

Clarissa Morawski

CEO

Reloop Platform

Rory Bakke

Principal

Sustainable Concepts Studio

Clare Miflin

Founder

Center for Zero Waste Design

Esra Tat

Associate Director

Zero Waste Europe

Miriam Gordon

Indisposable Communities Director

UPSTREAM

Alice Koehler

SVP Marketing

WasteZero

Susan Collins

President

Container Recycling Institute

Pal Martensson

Zero Waste in Amazonia

Let´s Do It World

Ana Carvalho

Board Member

Zero Waste International Alliance

Kaity Robbins

Zero Waste Manager

Boston University

Terry McDonald

Executive Director

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

Mandi McKay

Sustainability Manager

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co

Nina Bellucci Butler

CEO

More Recycling

Matthew Cotton

Owner

Integrated Waste Management Consulting, LLC

Kate Bailey

Policy & Research Director

Eco-Cycle

Sophie Hahn

Vice Mayor

City of Berkeley

Julie Sands Tyne

Supervising Recycling Specialist

City of San Diego

Lisa Skumatz

President / Principal

SERA

David Pinsky

Senior Plastics Campaigner

Greenpeace USA

Kourtnii Brown

Founder and Director

Common Compost

Kate M Davenport

Co President

Eureka Recycling

Sarah D OBrien

Director of Programs

Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council

Stephanie Barger

Director - TRUE Zero Waste Program

U.S. Green Building Council

Gary Liss

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

National Recycling Coalition

Sue Beets-Atkinson

Sr. Director of Sustainability

SBM Management/ GBCI TRUE Zero Waste

Confirmed Speakers

• Ruth Abbe, Zero Waste USA
• Laura Anthony, Save the Albatross Coalition
• Richard Anthony, Zero Waste International Alliance
• Kate Bailey, Eureka Recycling
• Will Bakx, Sonoma Compost
• Stephanie Barger, U.S. Green Building Council
• Sue Beets-Atkinson, SBM Zero Waste
• Nina Belluci Butler, More Recycling
• Joseph Button, Straus Family Creamery
• Shashawnda Campbell, United Workers
• Scott Cassel, Product Stewardship Institute
• Maggie Clarke, Maggie Clarke Environmental
• Susan V. Collins, Container Recycling Institute
• Matt Cotton, Integrated Waste Management Consulting
• Alicia Culver, Responsible Purchasing Network
• Kate Davenport, EcoCycle
• Christienne de Tournay Birkhahn, Berkeley Zero Waste Commission
• Danner Doud-Martin, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
• Miriam Gordon, Upstream Solutions
• Jamie Kaminski, Zero Waste Canada
• Christine Keith, GAIA
• Lin King, Cal Zero Waste
• Susan Kinsella, Conservatree
• Alice Koehler, Waste Zero
• Gary Liss, Zero Waste USA
• Leslie Lukacs, Zero Waste Sonoma
• Terry McDonald, St. Vincent de Paul
• Mandi McKay, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
• Erin McNichol, HP
• Clare Miflin, Center for Zero Waste Design
• Caroline Mitchell, Fort Collins, CO
• Julie Muir, Stanford University
• Sarah O’Brien, Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Counci
• Kirstie Pecci, Conservation Law Foundation
• Marialyce Pedersen, National Recycling Coalition
• Lisa Pellegrino, TerraCycle
• Emily Rusch, CalPIRG
• Heidi Sanborn, National Stewardship Action Council
• Julie Sands Tyne, City of San Diego
• Meleny Thomas, United Workers
• Robin Schneider, Texas Campaign for the Environment
• Neil Seldman, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
• Portia Sinnott, Zero Waste USA
• Lisa Skumatz, Skumatz Economic Research Associates
• Leah Tischler, SBM Zero Waste
• Gina Wu Lee, Upcyclers Network