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Her company specializes in management consulting for product stewardship and life cycle management, as well as regulatory strategies for compliance with the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and other regulations. She was central to building 3M’s corporate product stewardship programs, including regulatory compliance and chemical risk management, for 24 years. She has been active in various industry trade associations, written articles and given presentations to continually improve industry stewardship practices and to support effective and practical EHS regulations. She received a BA in Biology from the University of California at San Diego and an MS in Environmental Policy from Washington University, St. Louis.
Paul T. Anastas is Professor in the Practice of Green Chemistry with appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Chemical Engineering. In addition, Prof. Anastas serves as the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale. From 2004 -2006, Paul Anastas served as Director of the Green Chemistry Institute in Washington, D.C. He was previously the Assistant Director for the Environment in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he worked from 1999-2004. Trained as a synthetic organic chemist, Dr. Anastas received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University and worked as an industrial consultant. He is credited with establishing the field of green chemistry during his time working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as the Chief of the Industrial Chemistry Branch and as the Director of the U.S. Green Chemistry Program. Dr. Anastas has published widely on topics of science through sustainability, such as the books Benign by Design, Designing Safer Polymers, Green Engineering, and his seminal work with co-author John Warner, Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice.
Boerboom oversees the Budget and Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology and Laboratory Services Divisions at MDA. Previously, Boerboom served as Assistant Commissioner for seven years. He also directed the state’s Rural Finance Authority, a lending group supervised by the MDA. Boerboom was a state representative in the mid 1980s, serving a district that included Lyon and Lincoln counties. He also has 14 years of experience in banking and farming, and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Agriculture Education from the University of Minnesota. He and his family currently live in Waseca.
Doug Cameron, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Khosla Ventures He is a director of LanzaTech, Segetis, Draths, LS9 and Gevo, which are all companies focused on fuels and chemicals from renewable resources. He is also president of BioOils, LCC a Khosla subsidiary. From 1998 to 2006 he was director of biotechnology at Cargill, Inc. in Minneapolis, MN where he built the Cargill Biotechnology Development Center. From 1986 to 1998, Cameron was a professor of chemical engineering and an affiliate of the molecular biology program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and did pioneering research in the field of metabolic engineering and the microbial production of chemicals. Some of his current activities include: Fellow, of the Society for Industrial Microbiology (SIM) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Cameron received his B.S.E. in biomedical engineering from Duke University in 1979 and his Ph.D. in biochemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986.
Collins is credited with creating a new class of oxidation catalysts with the potential for enormous, positive impact on the environment. Dedicated to educating others about green chemistry and environmental issues, Collins has delivered more than 150 lectures at conferences and colloquia worldwide since just 2000. While at Carnegie Mellon in 1992, he launched one of the first course on green chemistry offered at any university, and he led the ACS-PRF Pan-American Green Chemistry Summer School for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in 2004. Collins is the associate editor for the Americas of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Green Chemistry, as well as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Chemical and Engineering News. He is also a co-chair of the Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference and the counselor for the Green Chemistry Gordon Conference.
Dr. Elde is dean of the University of Minnesota’s College of Biological Sciences and Chair of the Executive Committee for the Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment (IREE). IREE, funded by the Minnesota Legislature, supports research to develop biofuels and other sustainable forms of energy. Dr. Elde is also Chairman of University Enterprise Laboratories, a nonprofit incubator that supports early-stage bioscience companies. He is professor of neuroscience and holds an honorary medical degree from the Karolinska Institute.
He co-chairs the Mayors’ Green Manufacturing Initiative with Mayors RT Rybak of Minneapolis and Chris Coleman of St. Paul. He also served on the United Steelworkers International Executive Board, and is an adjunct faculty member at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. He chaired the USW’s International Executive Board Task Force on the Environment and authored its 2006 policy statement. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Evraz Oregon Steel Mills, a subsidiary of the Evraz Group, a global steel company headquartered in Moscow and Luxembourg with operations in the United States and Canada.
Gardner is serving his first term in the Minnesota House of Representatives. He is currently the Chair of the House Drinking Water Source Protection Subcommittee, and the Vice Chair of the Minnesota Heritage Finance Division Committee. He also sits on the Energy Finance, and Environment and Natural Resources Committee. Prior to joining the legislature he worked as a non-profit executive. Gardner is also an alumnus of the Humphrey School receiving a M.P.A in public and non-profit management.
Robert Hanson is a professor of chemistry at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. He is co-PI of a Keck Foundation grant, Green Chemistry Throughout the Curriculum, which since 2004 has focused on changing the way chemistry is taught. Specifically, green chemistry and process waste management and accountability concepts have been introduced into first-year chemistry, organic chemistry, and analytical chemistry laboratory programs at St. Olaf over the past several years.
Garth T. Hickle is the product stewardship team leader with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). He has been with the MPCA since 1996 working on product stewardship for various products including packaging, electronics and carpet. Prior to the MPCA he worked as a lobbyist on energy and environmental issues and at the Minnesota State Senate. He sits on the board of directors for the Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) and the board of advisors for the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT). He is an adjunct faculty member at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He holds a B.A. from the College of Wooster, an M.S.E.L. from Vermont Law School and an M.A. from Hamline University.
Husbands Fealing is a Science Advisor for the National Science Foundations Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. After finishing her Ph.D. at Harvard she joined the faculty of Williams College in Massachusetts. She is currently a visiting faculty member at the University of Minnesota. Her work has focused on the analysis of innovation, and international trade policies.
He served for fourteen years in the Minnesota Legislature, including ten years in the Minnesota Senate. He was the chief author of successful legislation related to science and technology issues, including telecommunications, information technology, biosciences, energy and the environment. During his tenure as the chair of the Senate Education Committee, he helped lead the development of new education standards in Minnesota and is continuing to work on improving mathematics and science instruction.
The Rural Communities Program is focused on “greening” the entire value chain and assuring that family farmers and local communities benefit from this sector Jim grew up on and is still active in the operation of his family’s sustainable farm in Nebraska. Since joining IATP has worked on nutrient management, water quality, renewable energy, bioplastics and sustainable agriculture. Jim has a M.A. from the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington - Seattle. He is a founder and steering committee member of the Sustainable Biomaterials Collaborative (www.sustainablebiomaterials.org), which seeks to define and promote more sustainable biomaterials throughout their lifecycle.
For the past 16 years he has been actively involved in the emerging biopolymers industry sector. He was a founder member of NatureWorks LLC., which developed and commercialized the first melt processable, renewable resource based polymer referred to as Polylactide or PLA. At NatureWorks LLC., he served in a variety of roles including, Director of Product Development, Global Director of Product and Applications Development for Fibers and Packaging and New Business Development Director Asia, before returning to the USA. Presently he is the Managing Director of Jim Lunt & Associates LLC.
Dr. Kuzma has worked at the National Academy of Sciences and U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington D.C. Her research and teaching focus on policies for emerging technologies. She is a co-investigator for three projects funded by the National Science Foundation. She plays a key role in new technology issues at the University of Minnesota and in national and international organizations. She has presented in Washington DC, France, and Switzerland on critical biotechnology and nanotechnology policy issues.
Michele Nelson, Business Development Manager for Corporate Research Business Assessment for 3M Company Housed in the Corporate Research Laboratory organization, she manages business development marketers to help move 3M's wide array of technologies towards commercialization and obtain technologies for future 3M high growth space platforms. Working across all of 3M's businesses and technology platforms, her group identifies and assesses new opportunities plus helps integrate those opportunities into 3M's structure and marketplace. One of her current programs is to help develop opportunities for 3M with renewable resource materials.
Mark previously worked in the administration of Minnesota's Governor Rudy Perpich in the Department of Agriculture, responsible for addressing the economic crisis facing family farmer and rural communities. Mark served for twenty years as the president of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP). In 2003 Mark led National Voice, a national coalition of over two thousand community-based organizations from across the country working together to increase non-partisan civic engagement and voter participation. National Voice, through their "November 2" media campaign, registered over 5 million new voters nationwide. As part of his official duties as Secretary of State, Mark serves on the State's Executive Council, the State Board of Investment, and the Minnesota Historical Society. Mark and his wife Nancy Gaschott live in Minneapolis.
Christopher Ryan, Chief Technology Officer, NatureWorks LLC Ryan is responsible for directing the product and process technology development efforts for Ingeo™ plastic made from NatureWorks® biopolymer. In this position, he built and led a biotechnology group consisting of molecular biologists, engineers and chemists to develop breakthrough biocatalysts. Ryan’s experience also includes four years in central R&D for the HB Fuller Company. Ryan holds 40 U.S. patents. Recently, Ryan served on the Governing Body of BIO’s Industrial & Environmental Section, board of directors for Biotechnology Research & Development Corporation (2000-2004. Ryan also holds a Management of Technology degree and PhD. in organic chemistry from University of Minnesota and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Gustavus Adolphus College.
Dr. Swackhamer currently serves on the Science Advisory Board and the Board of Scientific Councilors of the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission of the US and Canada. Dr. Swackhamer was also appointed by Governor Pawlenty to serve on the Minnesota Clean Water Council. Her research interests include chemical and biological processes that control the fate of toxic organic contaminants in the aquatic environment, particularly bioaccumulation of persistent compounds in fish in the Great Lakes; the processes that control exposure to environmental estrogenic compounds; and the development of contaminant indicators of ecosystem health.
William B. Tolman obtained a B.A. in chemistry from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT in 1983 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987. After a postdoctoral period with S.J. Lippard at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 1990, where he is now a Distinguished McKnight University and Lee Irvin Smith Professor of Chemistry. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Associate Editor of the American Chemical Society Journal "Inorganic Chemistry." His honors include a National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, a Camille & Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and a Research Award from the Alexandor von Humboldt Foundation. His research encompasses synthetic bioinorganic chemistry focused on modeling Cu and Fe metalloprotein active sites and polymerization catalysis focused on the synthesis of biodegradable materials derived from renewable resources.
Dr. Wallinga applies a systems perspective to the intersection of public health, agriculture, food and the environment. His expertise includes the impacts of food contamination and the means of food production on human health, including impacts on obesity and ecological health impacts from the inappropriate use of antibiotics and arsenic in livestock and poultry. For several years, Wallinga also has researched and advocated around the impacts on fetuses, children and adults of early-life exposures to neurotoxins—including many found in fish and other foods—on brain and nervous system function in children and adults, developing brains and other organs in fetuses and children. He authored Playing Chicken: Avoiding Arsenic in Your Meat, Poultry on Antibiotics: Hazards to Human Health and Putting Children First: Making Pesticide Levels in Food Safer for Infants and Children. He is a co-author of In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development and co-developer of the Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit. He received a medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School, a masters degree from Princeton University and a bachelors from Dartmouth College.
State Representative Jean Wagenius (DFL-Minneapolis) currently chairs the Environment and Natural Resources Finance Division. Wagenius has a long history of working on environmental issues. She was the first state legislator to tackle mercury reduction; the laws that she passed in Minnesota eliminating mercury in batteries were later adopted by other states and by Congress. As former chair of the Transportation Committee, Wagenius worked to make light rail in Minnesota a reality. Wagenius is serving her eleventh term in the legislature. Prior to her service, Wagenius was a staff attorney for the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
John Warnerworked at the Polaroid Corporation for nine years, and then went to UMASS Boston, where he has started the world's first Green Chemistry PhD program. He is now at the University of Massachusetts Lowell where he directs a large research group working on a diverse set of projects involving green chemistry using principles of crystal engineering, molecular recognition and self assembly. His work combines aspects of community outreach, government policy and industrial collaboration. He recently received The 2004 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Mentoring from President Bush and the Outstanding Service to Nursing Award from Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. He was awarded the American Institute of Chemistry's Northeast Division's Distinguished Chemist of the Year for 2002. His recent patents in the fields of semiconductor design, biodegradable plastics, personal care products and polymeric photoresists are examples of how green chemistry principles can be immediately incorporated into commercially relevant applications. Professor Warner is co-author of the book Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice and serves on the Board of Directors of the Green Chemistry Institute in Washington DC.
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Georjean Adams, President, EHS Strategies Inc
Jim Boerboom, Deputy Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Agriculture
Terry Collins, Ph.D, Director, Institute for Green Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Dean Robert Elde, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience 
David Foster, National Director, Blue-Green Alliance
Paul Gardner, Minnesota State Representative, District 53A
Robert Hanson, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, St. Olaf College 
Garth Hickle, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency 
Kaye Husbands Fealing, Ph.D., Humphrey School of Public Affairs 
Steve Kelley, J.D., Director, Center for Science, Technology & Public Policy 
Jim Kleinschmit, Director, Rural Communities Program, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Jim Lunt, Managing Director, Jim Lunt & Associates and the Green Harvest Initiative 
Jennifer Kuzma, Ph.D. biochemistry, University of Minnesota, Humphrey School 
Mark Ritchie, Minnesota Secretary of State
Deborah Swackhamer, Ph.D., Interim Director, University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment 
William B. Tolman, Ph.D, University of Minnesota Department of Chemistry 
David Wallinga, MD, MPA, Director of the Food and Health Program, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Jean Wagenius, State Representative, District 62B
John Warner, Ph.D., President and Chief Technology Officer, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry |
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