Thank you to Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics, for joining us on Zoom the evening of January 13, 2021 to talk about the plastic waste crisis. Thanks also to the hundreds of people who registered to view The Story of Plastic and those who attended Judith’s presentation, which you can watch below. You can also read coverage of the event by HudsonValleyOne.
hosted by Laura Heady of Mohonk Consultations.
We gratefully acknowledge M&T Bank for making this program possible.
In gratitude for Judith Enck’s participation in this program, Mohonk Consultations donated $200 to Beyond Plastics.
View the trailer for The Story of Plastic
Learn more at the Beyond Plastics website
ABOUT JUDITH ENCK
Environmental policy expert Judith Enck founded Beyond Plastics in 2019 to end plastic pollution through education, advocacy, and institutional change.
Passionate about protecting public health and the environment, she teaches classes on plastic pollution as a senior fellow and visiting faculty member at Bennington College, and was recently a visiting scholar at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. She appears on a weekly public affairs radio show, the Roundtable, on the Albany NPR affiliate, WAMC.
Judith has held top influential positions in state and federal government. Appointed by President Obama, she served as the regional administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, overseeing environmental protections in NY, NJ, eight Indian Nations, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands, in addition to managing a staff of 800 and a $700M budget.
Previously, Judith served as deputy secretary for the environment in the New York Governor’s Office, and policy advisor to the New York State attorney general. She was senior environmental associate with the New York Public Interest Research Group, served as executive director for Environmental Advocates of New York and the Non-Profit Resource Center, and is a past president of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater.
Judith lives in upstate New York with her husband, where they built their passive solar home with their own hands and with lots of support from friends and family. She designed her town’s rural recycling program. She is a proud parent and enjoys reading and following the news in her spare time.
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