Beyond Plastics Author

Judith Enck is the founder and president of Beyond Plastics, whose goal is eliminating plastic pollution everywhere. In 2009, she was appointed by President Obama to serve as regional administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and served as deputy secretary for the environment in the New York Governor’s Office. She is currently a professor at Bennington College, where she teaches classes on plastic pollution. She lives in upstate New York.

Adam Mahoney is the national climate and environment reporter at Capital B News. He has reported from more than a dozen U.S. states and Palestine, Mexico, Uganda, and Vietnam for newspapers including the New York Times and The Guardian. He lives in New Orleans.

Beyond Plastics is a nationwide project that uses education, advocacy, and grassroots organizing to reduce the production and use of plastic.