Garen Kazanjian is the Waste Zero Specialist at Recology Sonoma Marin that is responsible for the Marin County portions of their franchise: Novato and West Marin. He spends his time educating businesses on how to properly divert their waste, and setting up commercial customers with compost and recycling service. You might also find him tabling at a community event, presenting to students, or labeling bins and carts. Garen has a passion for politics and government, serving as a staff member in the California Legislature prior to working for Recology. This passion carries over into his current job, as he regularly attends Marin County Solid Waste JPA Local Task Force meetings, and serves on the Novato Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee.

Eva Holman is the co-founder of an San Francisco-based zero waste & plastic free business, Goods Holding Company; a long time volunteer for the SF Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation; a board member for the San Francisco League of Conservation Voters; and an Ambassador for 5 Gyres. She led the Rise Above Plastics Program for Surfrider SF, which looks for ways to reduce plastic pollution by finding alternatives to single use plastic, for 8 years. She has spent most of the last decade focused on finding alternative solutions for plastic straws, single use plastic cups and lids, plastic shotgun wads, plastic to go ware, single use plastic packaging and wrapping, plastic micro fibers, cigarette butts and more - and is dedicated to education and outreach in local schools and in SF neighborhoods.

Since 2000, Martin has led the Ecology Center, a community-based organization incorporated on Earth Day in 1970. Under Martin's leadership, the Ecology Center is leveraging local direct community service programs to have state and national impact. Martin has spearheaded innovative efforts such as creating a farmers’ market industry group, pioneering electronic food stamp access and incentives at farmers’ markets, and passing the nation’s first Soda Tax. By linking local grassroots grit with highly competent program implementation, and increasingly effective policy advocacy, Martin has led the Ecology Center to become a high impact engine for change.