Keynote Speaker: Rewriting the Book on Waste -- Miriam Gordon, Upstream
Thursday April 28, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Capital A Room
Miriam Gordon is the Policy Director for Upstream and a leading architect of policies aimed at reducing single-use products and packaging.
Prior to joining UPSTREAM, Miriam was the California Director of Clean Water Action, where she developed a program on waste prevention and launched ReThink Disposable, a program that has demonstrated 100% success in reducing single-use food packaging and achieved net cost savings for over 300 businesses and institutions. In the past 15 years, Miriam has been a leading California advocate, working with allies to secure 150 local bag bans and 100 foam bans, the state-wide plastic bag ban, and California’s ban on plastic microbeads. She previously worked with local, state, and federal agencies creating award-winning pollution prevention and water quality programs and regulating hazardous waste.
Miriam holds a JD Degree from Vermont Law School and was an undergraduate at Vassar College.