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Gabby Agustin

As the Social Media Production Associate at Story of Stuff, Gabby is responsible for creating impactful social content that supports the organization’s mission. She designs graphics, scripts, and edits videos to engage and inform their growing audience.Based in New York City, Gabby is a freelance digital strategist and creative storyteller with a background in Communications…

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Arrow Brown-Ryder

As the Social Media & Program Associate, Arrow is responsible for fielding general inquiry emails, assessing screening requests for The Story of Plastic, monitoring social media comments, and helping out with whatever else may arise.Arrow has been involved with a number of advocacy groups focused on environmental justice and other human rights concerns. They use…

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John Henry Williams

John Henry works as the Grassroots Advocacy Organizer empowering people all around the country transform their passion into power. He pushes forward reuse campaigns through trainings, outreach, coaching, coalition work, and fighting to pass policy. Prior to joining The Story of Stuff, John Henry worked as an organizer for the Sunrise Movement, activating young people…

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Eleni Sotos

As Director of the Fighting False Solutions program at CS Fund, Eleni brings expertise in program development, grantmaking strategy and philanthropy infrastructure, filtered through the lens of equitable and systems change-centered principles and practices. She has spent nearly three decades advancing innovative and collaborative programs in environmental philanthropy and NGO networks, having most recently served…

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Anna Sorokina

As the Lead Product Manager, Anna supports the strategy behind our digital tools and facilitates partnerships with media and allied organizations. She designs user flows and manages product development to facilitate behavior change around the adoption of reuse. Previously, Anna has led marketing for a solar investment firm and a zero-waste delivery marketplace, among others.…

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Jennie Curtis

Jennie is the principal of JCurtis Philanthropic Advising established in 2022 as a next step in her systems change journey after 21 years as the executive director of the Garfield Foundation. Under her leadership Garfield initiated two systems informed collaborative networks: the RE-AMP Network (140 U.S. Midwest-based organizations collaborating to drastically, and equitably, reduce global…

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Darryl Young

Darryl Young is the former Executive Director of the Merck Family Fund. Previously, he was the Director of the Summit Foundation’s Sustainable Cities Program and was the General Manager of the public relations practice at Riester, a national advertising, public relations and social marketing firm. Darryl has served as the Director of the California Department…

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Emily Paulos

During her former career as a high school art teacher and staff development instructor, Emily completed her MA in art education pursuing the convergence of storytelling and new media. Her master’s thesis, a website called The Mom Project, examines issues of narrative and the use of technology in the art classroom. In 2002 she joined the…

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Miriam Gordon

Miriam is a widely-recognized leader in the reuse movement. An architect of innovative policy models, reuse campaigns and a large network of coalitions and collaborations, Miriam’s role has been incubator, innovator and builder of the reuse movement. Over her 30+ years of environmental leadership, including stints as Director of Clean Water Action California and consultant…

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Marianella Nuñez

Marianella supports the Break Free From Plastic Global communication team on ongoing and peak projects. She is an Architect and Educator by profession. Before her role as the BFFP Global Comms Associate, Marianella worked with Stanford University as a Program Coordinator where she designed, planned, and implemented International Discussion Series Talks, Faculty Lunch Programs, and…

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