December 2022
Adoma Addo
Adoma Addo is an associate at the Center for Biological Diversity, where she supports campaigns centered around addressing human impacts on the environment. At the Center, Adoma’s work focuses on waste prevention, advocacy for sexual and reproductive health and rights, and the systemic injustices associated with unequal environmental burdens and unequal access to health services. … Read more
Alex Danovitch
Alex brings a unique perspective to his work derived from over 20 years of experience in social enterprise development and advocacy around zero waste and recycling. With a strong operational, policy, and entrepreneurial background, Alex excels in business and zero waste planning, financial evaluation and projections, waste system modeling, social and environmental impact quantification, recycling … Read more
Bart Miller
Bart is the EH&S leader for MDRR with over 30 years of expertise in the recycling and waste management, precious metal and aggregate mining, asphalt and Ready-Mix concrete production, utility construction, telecommunications, and environmental consulting industries. He is responsible for developing MDRR’s vision in safety excellence, managing MDRR’s day-to-day EH&S program compliance, influencing safe decisions … Read more
Sal Evola
Sal is the main day-to-day point of contact and manager for all of the jurisdictions that we serve. He is also responsible for all aspects of environmental & regulatory permitting for all projects including the Mt. Diablo Resource Recovery Park and ensures that Mt. Diablo can meet all of its current and future contractual obligations … Read more
Win Cowger, PhD
Win Cowger is an Environmental Scientist at the Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research. He specializes in advancing science on transport and fate of trash (including plastic and microplastic pollution) in watersheds and river flow (Tracking Trash). If we can track trash, we can identify solutions to plastic pollution and assess their effectiveness. While conducting this … Read more
Nicole Kenney
Nicole Kenney is a Program Manager of Sustainable Packaging for Cisco Systems. She currently serves as an Executive Committee member on the Prevention, Repair and Reuse Technical Council of CRRA (California Resource Recovery Association). She is also an active member in the California Chapter of the AATCC (American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists). She … Read more
Whitney Amaya
Whitney Amaya is a Salvadoran-American from Long Beach, California. She received her B.A. in Geography/Environmental Studies from UCLA in 2015, and her M.S. in Geographic Information Science from CSULB in 2018. As a community member with East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, she has helped organize bike toxic tours as a way to engage and educate … Read more
Grace Liao
Grace Liao is a Senior Associate at Food Works Group. She brings a wide range of experience across the food system, including programmatic and operational experience in food banks, community food hubs, and food service and community kitchen settings. She brings an ethnographic lens to her work and is dedicated to building a more equitable, … Read more
Stephanie Regni
As the founder and owner of Fillgood, the first Bay Area zero waste store and delivery service, Stephanie is invested in the movement to reduce plastic pollution since 2016. Born when Stephanie started learning about the devastating effects of plastic on the environment and human health, Fillgood provides sustainable and safe alternatives to plastic products … Read more