Career Road to
Get Here:
o Eight years, 2000
to 2008, as Nike’s Director of Footwear Sustainability
leading technical efforts to reduce the environmental impact of
footwear
products
and the vendor supply chain.
o Established and managed, from 1996 to 2000, Nike's Asia environmental
programs and
the efforts to green Nike's Asian footwear supply chain.
o Part of the Nike senior management team that built the "best corporate
environmental program in the United States"
according to Business Ethics
Magazine in 2006.
o Part
of the Nike product team that earned the prestigious Gold Industrial
Design Excellence Award (IDEA) from Industrial Design Society
of America
(IDSA)
for the “Nike Considered Boot.”
o Chosen by Al Gore’s “Climate Project” to be one of the 1,000 people globally who were personally
trained by Al Gore
to deliver his climate change presentation.
o Prior to Nike, worked as an independent consultant teaching environmental sustainability in India, Thailand and China
under
contract to US EPA.
o Worked for
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) for five years in early 1990's teaching "resource
efficient manufacturing" and "toxics
substance reduction" to businesses.
o Prior to DEQ, spent nine years developing and implementing environmental programs for a series of corporate
employers in Northern and
Southern California.
o Bachelor
of Science Degree in Social Science, with emphasis in Economics and Anthropology, from Portland State
University, Oregon.