Marilee Movius

As Senior Community Engagement Manager for the League to Save Lake Tahoe, Marilee fosters an informed and engaged community of residents and visitors to protect Lake Tahoe. She oversees the League’s volunteer and citizen science programs, cultivates local partnerships, organizes the League’s community events, and leads the design for a wide range of educational materials. … Read more

Daniela Ochoa González

Daniela is a trilingual inspiring purpose-driven leader. She has over 14 years of expertise in advancing systemic change for the circular economy through innovative cross-sector partnerships to advance zero waste policy, programs, and solutions locally throughout North America and Latin America. Her expertise has been in food waste reduction, composting, and soil regeneration as key … Read more

Apurva Singh

Apurva Singh supports European cities and bioregions in setting progressive circular economy targets and carbon neutrality roadmaps. Under various EU Horizon 2020 projects, Apurva has developed impact monitoring frameworks, environmental performance indicators and city-level action plans to reconfigure and strengthen their regenerative capacities. Organization:MetabolicTitle:ResearcherWebhttps://www.metabolic.nlLinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/apurva-singh-0a9b0379/

MacKenzie Marcelin

MacKenzie is a Florida native who works as a Climate Justice Director for Florida Rising. He works to build towards a future based on the principles of climate justice and just transition to ensure our Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities are leading and not left behind as we develop solutions for the climate crisis. He … Read more

Nora Goldstein

Nora Goldstein is Editor/Publisher of BioCycle CONNECT® and BioCycle.net, the Organics Recycling Authority. Nora is in her 5th decade of working at BioCycle. She received the US Composting Council’s Hi Kellogg Award for Outstanding Service to the Composting Industry, and the American Biogas Council’s Biogas Visionary Award. Nora serves on the Board of the Institute … Read more

Elizabeth Balkan

Elizabeth Balkan brings extensive public policy and strategy experience to her role as Director, Reloop North America. She previously led the food waste program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, growing the Food Matters initiative to comprise more than 40 cities nationwide. Before that, Balkan developed and oversaw implementation of New York City’s zero waste … Read more

Kirstie Pecci

Kirstie Pecci is the Executive Director of Just Zero, a national Zero Waste non-profit. Kirstie established and was the Director of the Zero Waste Program at Conservation Law Foundation, and is a former MASSPIRG Staff Attorney actively engaged in waste reduction and opposing the expansion of landfill and incinerator capacity. She also founded the central … Read more

Nena Shaw

Nena Shaw has over 30 years of environmental law and policy experience from work in the public and private sectors. Nena is the Senior Advisor for Circular Economy and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law recycling efforts in the Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery within the Office of Land and Emergency Management. She holds degrees from Duke … Read more

Jay Bassett

Jay Bassett

Jay Bassett served the public over 35 years both as a naval military officer (retired) and as a civil servant and leader with the US Environmental Protection Agency. He was a charter member of EPA’s leadership cadre in transforming EPA’s land and waste program’s “Road Ahead” principles building capacity on materials management approaches, and broad, … Read more

Sophie Hague

About Sophie Hague, Founder of Positive Phee With a degree in fashion business Sophie “Phee”, Hague spent a decade immersed in the London luxury fashion & lingerie industries before moving to San Diego where in 2020 she founded her sustainable fashion events and services brand, “Positive Phee”. After researching the current fashion cycle and the … Read more