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As CASR’s Green Workforce Program Manager, I work implement CASR's Green Workforce vision by ensuring that our programming is impactful, inclusive to all, and leads to quality employment. Prior to CASR, I spent three years with a local Denver nonprofit managing their workforce development programming tailored to individuals with hurdles to mainstream employment. Before moving to Denver, I lived in Portland Oregon and gained diverse workforce development and climate focused-experience, including working alongside immigrant and refugee populations to map issues of climate justice to workforce development programming. Connect with Jessmine: Email
Amber has 8 years of experience in professional waste reduction and diversion project management. After graduating from Fort Lewis College in 2019 with a B.A in Environmental Studies and Studio Art, she went on to tackle waste created at some of the largest musical events in the world. She went on to work with the USFS within the Greening Fires Initiative. In 2021, she moved back to her home state where she formed Diversion Designers, a waste consulting firm specializing in eliminating valuable resources from reaching the landfill. Connect with Amber: Email, LinkedIn, Website, Instagram
Shawn Bruckman Shawn Bruckman is a soil health and compost consultant with The Ground Up. With over a decade of experience in the compost industry she has designed and implemented compost programs that span all sectors of organics management, from commercial and community collection to food and yard waste processing. As a Certified Compost Operations Manager, she demonstrates best practices in the industry and is contracted to facilitate internationally recognized Compost Operator Training Courses for the Compost Research and Education Foundation. She serves on boards for her local Conservation District and the CDA Soil Health Advisory Committee, and is on the leadership team for the Colorado Compost Council. Connect with Shawn: Email, Website, Instagram, LinkedIn
Ryan J. Call is the Campaigns Coordinator for Eco-Cycle. He earned an M.S. in Environmental Policy and Management from the University of Denver, where he focused on sustainable waste management policies. Ryan has worked on several successful Zero Waste projects at the municipal and state levels. He currently lives in Laporte, CO, with his wife. Connect with Ryan: Email, Website, Facebook, Instagram
Lanny Ellis moved to Colorado in 2013 and began studying horticulture and permaculture in 2015. He formed a non-profit called New Roots CO in 2017, whose mission is to support local, sustainable food systems through education, outreach and partnership. Now he works with The Ground Up to create microbe-rich compost and compost tea to enrich the soil food web in our local ecosystem. Connect with Lanny: Email, Website, Instagram
Juri provides senior level subject matter expertise for resource management, recycling, and circular economy consulting services across North America. Juri leads the development and execution of innovative material recovery projects including end market acceleration, zero waste programming, packaging design, recovery, and recycling, organics management, and food waste recovery. Connect with Juri: Email
Becky Goyton brings 20 years of experience in project management and environmental education to the Zero Waste and Circular Economy team within Denver’s Office of Climate Action, Sustainability and Resiliency. She works on policy and program development to meet the city’s waste diversion and climate goals and advance Denver's circular economy. She is passionate about stopping waste before it starts and finding ways for the city to support reuse, repair, and rental solutions. Becky has previously worked in various government entities, including San Francisco’s Department of the Environment and Denver’s Solid Waste Management Division. Connect with Becky: Email, Website
Melissa has been involved in sustainability work for the past 10 years with a foundation in plastic pollution science research and environmental advocacy. Melissa now leads Upstream’s Reuse Solution Network, engaging NGOs, entrepreneurs, local organizations, community leaders, and governments across the US and Canada. She focuses her time on supporting stakeholders through the education and adoption of reuse systems. She is excited about bringing more reuse to the Phoenix area while enjoying all the outdoors that Arizona has to offer. Connect with Melissa: Email, Website, LinkedIn
Ashwin has worked in the circular economy space for the past 6 years, specifically on creating technology that can make reusable systems easier to use and that can seamlessly integrate with modern conveniences. Ashwin founded the first zero-waste grocery service in Colorado called Infinity Goods in 2018, before founding Repeater PBC, a reusable takeout container service that later got acquired by DeliverZero. Ashwin now serves as CTO of DeliverZero and is in charge of building tech to scale reuse systems. Connect with Ashwin: Email, LinkedIn
Robb actively advocates for trade skills, enlightening students about alternative career paths beyond traditional college tracks. His background in educarion, manufacturing and construction helps him play a vital role in spreading the goals of NCC across northern Colorado. Connect with Rob: Email, Website
Christi is founder and CEO of Scraps. Before ever imagining starting a small business, Christi spent seven years in Madagascar partnering with communities to create appropriate solutions to local sustainability challenges; then, in a pivot from international development she came to Colorado to pursue a masters in environmental journalism and connect with sustainability & climate issues through a different lens. Not satisfied with a communications and journalism career, and frustrated with the lack of action on what seemed like a solvable problem, Christi launched Scraps in 2017 as a means to pilot a simple, bike-based compost pickup service to Denver’s underserved downtown community. In the seven years since, Scraps has grown to serve nearly 5000 commercial & residential members throughout the Denver Metro, diverted more than 5 million pounds of material, and become one of the most recognized organics haulers on Colorado’s Front Range. Scraps remains devoted to increasing access to composting, raising awareness of its benefits and helping make composting the norm in Colorado. Christi lives on a small homestead in Arvada, CO with two dogs and 30+ rescue animals. If she’s not talking trash, she’s probably hiking, rafting, cooking for friends or running around with her goats. |
Christi Turner