About ZWMC

Susan Eisendrath, M.P.H. is an Environmental Education and Program Consultant, Master Gardener and Master Composter. Susan has provided the composting training for Montgomery County Master Gardeners and she is currently part of a team creating a Master Composter Training Program and she is assisting with the creation of the Composting Education Hub at the Agriculture History Farm in Derwood. She is an urban organic food grower and advocates for increasing local food production and access through her work with the Climate Coalition Montgomery County Food Resilience Working Group. She is the former co-chair of the Montgomery County Food Council (FC) Environmental Impact Working Group and a former member of the FC Racial Equity Committee and she served on the County Sierra Club Executive Committee for two terms. She’s a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, where she worked on agricultural projects in Tanzania and also consulted for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

Lauren Greenberger, M.H.Sc. is vice president of the Sugarloaf Citizens’ Association in Dickerson, founded in 1973 with the mission to protect and preserve the 93,000-acre agriculture reserve for farming, open space, land conservation, and rural life. She has served on the board since 2014 and was president from 2017 to 2020. 

She also serves on the Dickerson Area Facilities Implementation Group and is a Master Gardener with the University of Maryland Agriculture Extension Service. 

As a health researcher, Lauren previously worked on international public health initiatives in West and Central Africa including projects with USAID, CDC, WHO and the Peace Corps.

Amy Maron, M.P.P. is an independent public policy professional, analyst, and program evaluator, specializing in environmental issues. Her positions included program evaluator with the U.S. Government Accountability Office, legislative assistant and projects director for U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg (NJ), and environmental advocacy and consulting for several national environmental NGOs. 

She serves on the Montgomery County Solid Waste Advisory Committee and the Dickerson Area Facilities Implementation Group.

She was the volunteer Zero Waste Lead for the Sierra Club – Montgomery County Group from 2019-2022.

Carrie Maslen is committed to leaving the world a better place for future generations. Carrie served as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and a guest lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, and she also lectures at her alma mater, Catholic University, where she holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and serves on the Board of Visitors for the School of Engineering. After a leadership career in high tech for three industry stalwarts, Carrie continues to advocate for solutions that make communities healthier and greener.

Daniela Ochoa Gonzalez is specialized in Spanish, English and French content and training to reach Zero Waste, improve Food Systems and expand Regenerative Agriculture practices. She has served as a planner for strategic initiatives at Austin Resource Recovery, as the Zero Waste Coordinator for the University of Texas at Austin, as a freelance translator, sustainability consultant and educator for SOLURSO, Sustainable Urban Solutions, and as a translator and trainer for Regenerative Solutions.

Mike Ewall is the founder and director of Energy Justice Network, a national support network for grassroots community groups fighting dirty energy and waste industry facilities such as coal power plants, ethanol plants, natural gas facilities, landfills and incinerators of every sort. He has been actively involved in student and community environmental justice organizing since high school in 1990. He’s taught hundreds of workshops at college campuses and activist conferences throughout the U.S. His grassroots support work has helped many communities achieve victories against power plants, landfills, incinerators, medical waste facilities and other polluting industries.

Neil Seldman is a Zero Waste advocate with extensive experience in the field. He co-founded the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and served as their Director of its Waste to Wealth Initiative for 48 years. He also co-founded the National Recycling Coalition, GRRN/Zero Waste USA, Zero Waste International Association and the Save the Albatross Coalition.

Seldman is known for helping organized citizens and small businesses defeat planned incinerators and then being hired by these jurisdictions to plan and implement Zero Waste.