Yvette Arellano is a powerhouse organizer and emerging leader from Houston dedicated to the causes of environmental and racial justice. She serves as a policy research and grassroots advocate with Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services. In 2015, they led the campaign against H.R. 702, which opened the floodgates to U.S. crude oil exports. Yvette represented…
Von Hernandez is a multi-awarded Filipino environmental activist who has been campaigning on waste and toxics pollution for more than 25 years. He is the Global Coordinator of the global Break Free from Plastic Movement, consisting of more than 8,000 groups and individual supporters worldwide, which have come together to reverse the plastic pollution crisis.…
Tiza Mafira is a law and public policy expert specializing in environmental law, waste management, and climate change policy. She holds a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Laws from Universitas Indonesia. Since 2013, she is co-founder and Executive Director of the Indonesia Plastic Bag Diet Movement (Gerakan Indonesia Diet Kantong…
Shibu K. Nair is a champion of Zero Waste in India, engaged in policy advocacy campaign for zero waste systems since 2000. Shibu started his career by volunteering with Thanal – environmental organization in Kerala – in 1991. He was awarded Zero Waste Fellowship by GAIA, co-hosted by Berkeley California’s Ecology Center in 2002. He was…
Priscilla Villa-Watt (Texas, United State) is the Petrochemical Campaigner at Earthworks, a non-profit environmental organization based in Washington, DC. She joined Earthworks in 2016 after receiving her Master’s in Applied Anthropology from the University of North Texas. Her work is focused on providing community members impacted by oil and gas development with the tools to study…
Prigi Arisandi grew up near the Surabaya River and remembers seeing it degrade when factories began operating in the region in the early 1980s. He spent much of his childhood exploring the river and went on to study biology and conservation. With a deep commitment to the communities living along the river, he founded Ecological…
Pratibha Sharma has over 7 years of experience in Solid Waste Management (SWM) sector, working with International Zero Waste Network and Wastepickers’ Organizations in India. Previously she has worked with Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), an international network of more than 800 organizations working towards environmental protection, sustainable development, and human rights; and SWaCH-…
Martin Bourque is committed to sparking change within the environmental and social justice landscape in order to keep the movement fresh, dynamic, and forward thinking. He thrives at the intersection of community movement building, policy development and program implementation. Since 2000, Martin has led the Ecology Center, a community-based organization founded in 1969 and incorporated…
Mao Da the director of Toxics-Free China and the policy advisor of China Zero Waste Alliance. He holds a PhD degree in environmental history. Over the past 10 years, he has been actively working with different environmental NGOs for their efforts to reduce pollutions of wastes and toxic chemicals, and promote environmental health. In the academic…
