Hannah is an optimistic leader with a passion for showing people that less is more. She lives in Bellingham WA with her partner and five-year-old Great Pyrenees. She finds joy in the woods admiring the many shades of green or with a cup of coffee by the fire.

Anna is a curious steward of our environment and seeks to reimagine the concept of waste. When she’s sitting still you’ll find her mending anything with a hole. What brings her joy is perfectly estimating the amount of dinner leftovers to fit in the container.

Gwen has been passionate about reducing waste ever since she started bringing food in glass jars in her lunches in elementary school. Her grandma always taught her to pick up visible trash on the ground and while her scope of zero-waste work has expanded, she still enjoys all of the waste diversion she gets to be a part of at wildland fire camps. Gwen enjoys sewing, singing to the birds, and stacking uniform pieces of cardboard.

At Drexel University in Philadelphia, Apollonia studied Industrial Design, intending to use her natural artistic abilities to build beautiful objects for mass production. During a critical course, she learned about the Pacific Gyre, prompting the realization that her chosen path would make her a contributor and instigator of the global waste issue. She chose then to utilize her abilities to understand people and create beautiful, desirable objects and systems towards creating a path toward a waste-free future. She is an outdoor enthusiast, with a particular love for sailing and backpacking. Fun fact: she is ambidextrous, hands and feet.

Victoria has a BA in Business & Sustainability from Western Washington University. Working with waste challenges her by directly addressing the role we, as humans, play in the ecosystem. In her free time, Victoria further explores her curiosity about humanity by traveling solo internationally with a focus on agriculture, food-waste management, and environmental strategies.