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President
Muriel Williman (start of term
12/2008)
Muriel has been in garbage for over 10 years and now works for Orange County Solid Waste Management as their Education and Outreach Coordinator. Prior to that she worked for Chatham County as recycling coordinator, for the now defunct nonprofit recycling company in Durham called SunShares as school recycling coordinator, and for the NC Museum of Natural Sciences traveling the state using live animals for natural history instruction. Suffice it to say, she can talk trash. She is a naturalist and waste reduction specialist at heart and is particularly interested in sustainable community, local self reliance, art, music and the DIY movement. Muriel received her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies/Ecosystems from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1995, and is a 2008 fellow of the Natural Resources Leadership Institute at NC State University. She currently lives in Durham with a bunch of other animals.
Co-Secretary
Peter Reintjes (start of term 6/2008)
After a career in Logic Programming (MCNC, Quintus, and IBM), Bio-Informatics (MCNC, IBM, Glaxo), and two Internet start-ups (NetSpeak, EtchStone), Peter has settled down to do what he really loves: building high-throughput molecular biology equipment and Inductive Logic Programming systems out of the junk that other people throw away — and teaching others how to do the same. He is now the Exhibits Engineer at the Museum of Life and Science.
Co-Secretary
Renee Strnad (start of term 2/2010)
Renee came to North Carolina from Kansas in 1999, drawn to the outer banks by an environmental education position. Within a year, she relocated to Raleigh and N.C. State University, where she is the Environmental Educator for Extension Forestry in the College of Natural Resources. Besides working with her colleagues to provide information to landowners, her duties center around youth education focusing on natural resources. She is also the state coordinator for Project Learning Tree and was introduced to The Scrap Exchange during a workshop series on municipal solid waste she led in cooperation with a former Scrap Exchange board member. Renee lives in Durham with her husband, Scot, who has supported and encouraged her efforts to make their home one that reduces and reuses as well as recycles.
Treasurer
Rebecca Currie (start of term 10/2006)
Rebecca Currie became involved with The Scrap Exchange in 2003 and since that time has filled many roles, including outreach staff worker, outreach events coordinator, newsletter editor, workshop instructor, tech support person, and resident floor cleaner. (She believes she is among a very select group of consultants who both fix software problems and scrub floors.) She achieved a brief moment of fame in 2009 when she ate for a dollar a day, spending one dollar at a time. Perhaps you read about her in People magazine. She lives in Old North Durham and makes a living as an independent software developer.
Members
Karimah Abdusamad (start of term 9/2009)
Jenna Boitano (start of term 7/2008)
Jenna is the Executive Director of Crayons2Calculators (C2C). She has worked in the non-profit community for the last ten years. Jenna graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in History and holds a JD from Santa Clara University Law School. She lives in Durham with her husband, Joshua.
Anne Gregory (start of term 6/2008)
Anne worked as an independent designer in the fashion industry for 15 years. She launched her own line of women's apparel from the garment district in New Your and later moved her company to North Carolina. For the past nine years she taught art at the high school level. She has worked with at-risk teens, juvenile offenders, and emotionally disturbed youth. Recently she left teaching in order to pursue painting full time.
Jan Ru-Wan (start of term 12/2010)
Jan-Ru Wan is an artist-educator who was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and has acquired an international reputation in the fiber-arts field. In the 15 years since receiving her MFA, she has participated in 20 solo exhibitions and 40 group exhibitions, and has been awarded three major artist residencies. Since 2009, she has conducted upcycle design in her studio course in the College of Design at North Carolina State University and plans to pursue future development for creative reuse in the higher education sector. Prior to her position at NCSU, she was assistant professor at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. for four years. You can find her works at web.me.com/janruwan
Orla Swift (start of term 10/2009)
Orla is the director of marketing and communications for Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University. Prior to that, she worked for 20 years at daily newspapers, mostly as an arts critic and concert photographer but also including stints covering news and as an editor. She also enjoys Lomography and other alternative photography, and she makes jewelry and collage art (using Scrap ingredients) and is an avid online art-swapper. She got her bachelor’s degree in English from McGill University in Montreal and a master’s in liberal studies from Duke. She loves to travel and bring scraps home to play with.
Matthew Todd (start of term 11/2009)
In the late 90s Matt spent many hours dumpster-diving as part of his recycling consulting job in Washington, D.C. This was just one part of the recycling education that has been a part of his professional life since graduating from Virginia Tech with a BS in Environmental Science. It has also included time in sales at a solid-waste hauling company in the DC Metro area, program management with UNC’s Office of Waste Reduction and Recycling, and currently with the State of North Carolina helping to establish and grow recycling markets across the state. Matt lives in Durham with his wife Alice and their two daughters, Annabel and Phoebe.
Gregory Wellemeyer (start of term 11/2009)
Ari Zandman-Zeman (start of term 11/2009)
After studying business at the University of Northern Colorado and enduring the rigors of a Division 1 basketball career, Ari followed his dreams by joining the U.S. Peace Corps, where he was posted in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Following the Peace Corps, Ari continued his development quest by living and working on different cooperatives in rural Guatemala for three years. Restless energy and the need for a strength-training program in lieu of a gym were the deciding factors that eventually led to the creation of “Rubberbanditz”, Ari’s integrated fitness/exercise band business. As a proud supplier of The Scrap Exchange, he now resides in Durham with his fiancée, Shiran Zohar. Ari is an Alaskan-born gentle giant with an ice cream addiction.
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