CRRA2019

Waste Program Coordinator

As Waste Program Coordinator, Kelly works to engage companies on behalf of shareholders on recycling, waste reduction, and plastic pollution prevention measures. Kelly also assists in managing As You Sow’s Plastic Solutions Investor Alliance, an international coalition of 40 institutional investors from around the globe with a combined $2 trillion of assets, working to engage publicly traded consumer goods companies on the threats posed by plastic pollution and waste. Prior to joining As You Sow Kelly spent five years as an analyst and advocate in California’s capital community of Sacramento, most recently with the non-profit environmental group Californians Against Waste. 

Reuse/Reduce

Corporations have the capacity and responsibility to shift their operations to support a zero-waste and circular economy. Kelly will discuss the enormous power shareholders have to influence corporations in this direction and active shareholder campaigns underway in 2019 to transition away from plastic, reduce overall material usage, and increase the transparency of corporate pollution.