December 01, 2009

New Zero Waste Alliance Director Appointed

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Cheyenne Chapman as Executive Director of the Zero Waste Alliance. In that capacity, she is responsible for the overall strategic direction, program planning and project management of the Zero Waste Alliance. Ms. Chapman also serves as a member of the executive management team for the International Sustainable Development Foundation.

Cheyenne worked in the public sector as a planner and lawyer for many years, and has worked in the nonprofit sector in programs, administration and fundraising. She brings a professional and personal commitment to achieving sustainability.

Cheyenne previously worked with Health Care Without Harm, an international coalition that promotes a vision of a health care sector that does no harm and instead promotes the health of people and the environment. She helped introduce comprehensive chemicals policy programs, including both market-driven approaches (supply chain strategies, environmentally preferable purchasing) and advocacy efforts.

Cheyenne gained additional experience in chemicals policy reform while serving as the Interim National Coordinator for SAFER States, a coalition of state groups and national allies that is working for reform of state and federal laws regulating toxic substances.

Cheyenne served as the first Chemicals Policy Program Director at the Oregon Center for Environmental Health. At the local level she served as citizen representative on the joint City of Portland and Multnomah County Toxics Reduction Steering Committee and Mercury Reduction Workgroup. She also served on the Oregon Environmental Council’s Collaborative for Health and the Environment (CHE-Oregon) Media and Research Advisory Committee that assisted in preparation of the report “Pollution in People: A Study of Toxic Chemicals in Oregonians.”

Cheyenne holds a Bachelors degree in Environmental Design from the University of Colorado, a law degree from the University of Oregon, and an advanced law degree in Environmental and Natural Resources from the Lewis and Clark School of Law. She completed her legal thesis on Science Policy Choices and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs).