Webinar: Scaling Up Mission-Driven Community Composting

Kristie’s passion is identifying sustainable solutions to connect people to the environment. Kristie has over 13 years of waste management experience from hazardous waste remediation to food waste recycling. She now leads the composting division at Compost Crew, a mission-driven food scrap recycling and composting business that services more than 20,000 homes, businesses, and municipalities in the Washington, DC metro region.

David Paull is co-founder and Chief Impact Officer at CompostNow. CompostNow is an award winning compost solutions provider for organics recycling with expertise in the hauling, logistics, consultation, production, and distribution of compost. Founded in 2011, CompostNows’ mission is to make composting easy. Since 2011, CompostNow has diverted 75 million pounds of food waste from landfills and created 24 million pounds of finished compost for local farms and gardens. David has been highly involved in food waste circularity, food systems, and social entrepreneurship for the past decade. He currently serves as a commissioner on the East Point Local Food System Ecosystem Commission, as a Board Member of the Southface Institute, and is the founding Board Chair of the Georgia Compost Council. With a design degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design, David applies design thinking to advance circular solutions at the intersection of planetary and human health.

Michael is a co-founder and worker-owner at Rust Belt Riders+Tilth Soil, an organization dedicated to transforming regional food systems through the creation of soil blends from food waste. RBR+Tilth’s vision is to build a regenerative solidarity economy that improves food security and combats climate change.

He also serves on the board of Cleveland Owns, an economic democracy incubator that builds cooperative businesses and leads campaigns for community control of resources. When he’s not working, he likes to read, cook, help on his wife’s flower farm, and nap with his cats. Michael is an Echoing Green Climate Fellow and an Environmental Leadership Program Senior Fellow.

Clarissa Libertelli – Coordinator, Community Composter Coalition
Institute for Local Self-Reliance

Clarissa coordinates the Community Composter Coalition, a network with over 300 organizational members in 47 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and 9 other countries, hosted by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Her work involves convening networking and knowledge-sharing events for community composters, producing resources and infographics to support community composting, and more.