Mai Nguyen serves at as the Chief Operating Officer of Seattle Goodwill and oversees a wide and critical scope of service for the organizations operations across Northwest Washington including information technology, asset management, financial operations, and risk management. Mai has been recognized for her commitment to her community throughout her career, including receiving the Denise…
Holly Beale has a passion for making big impacts for positive change towards a more sustainable, greener, cleaner, more equitable world. She started and leads the global Community Environmental Sustainability program for Microsoft’s Datacenter Community Development team; building a program to positively impact the long-term environmental health of the communities in Microsoft’s global datacenter footprint.…
Jay ONeal works as the Director of Finance and Operations for Washington State Charter School Association. He gained his passion for recycling working in large recycling facilities at Republic Services, and managed their $65mm P&L business unit in Seattle. Previously, Jay worked at Starbucks, and Target. He began his career in the United States Marine…
Sally Wolf has been an enthusiastic volunteer on environmental issues for many years. She worked on the successful ban on styrofoam, opting out of yellow pages delivery and the Green Bag Campaign in Seattle, and as a former member of the Board of Directors of CELP (The Council for Environmental Law and Policy) has worked on…
Shirlee Tan, PhD has been working in the field of science policy for over 17 years, with a main focus on the effects of chemicals on human health. Her career has primarily focused on chemical regulation and science policy at the national, international, and now local levels. Her early career began at the US Environmental…
Melissa Stuart was introduced to Zero Waste ideas as an undergrad at Washington State University. She went on to lead the student body’s Environmental Task Force, liaising with the university administration to win environmental gains in upcoming campus development projects. Melissa is a non-profit manager and fundraiser anxious to reconnect with waste reduction work as a…
Anisha Shankar has over a decade of experience in the field of conservation, waste reduction, and recycling. She worked at Cascadia Consulting Group in Seattle (2006-2011) first working on, then managing Seattle Public Utilities’ commercial conservation program. She left to complete a six-month Fellowship in India, designing a nutrition program for underserved children. Anisha spent the…
Marie Novak became interested in resource conservation and waste reduction during an internship spent conducting residential and business recycling and composting outreach throughout King and Snohomish Counties. She is very excited to be serving on the board of Zero Waste Washington and advocating for systems-level waste solutions, especially around extended producer responsibility and cradle to cradle…
Patty Liu is currently the Recycling Program Manager of the West Coast team of Green Eileen and Eileen Fisher. She holds an MBA of Sustainable Business from Pinchot University, now known as Presidio Graduate School. Her interest in solid waste is focused in closed loop design and reusability.
Kyle Loring detests waste, and fondly recalls a time when the local dump on Anderson Island doubled as an exchange depot, and when a youngster could collect and turn in recycling to earn a little pocket change. Although a few decades have passed, Kyle continues to look for ways to reduce waste in his personal…
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