November Young Professional of the Month: Gwen Casey
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We are thrilled to highlight Gwen Casey as November’s YP of the Month! Gwen is one of our recent YP scholarship recipients who has joined our YP Outreach Committee.
Gwen began working in the composting space as a sophomore in high school, washing buckets for a Chicago-area compost pick-up service. Since then, Gwen has remained involved in composting and passionate about its role in addressing climate change. For Gwen’s senior thesis at Carleton College, she studied methods to reduce methane emissions from the process of composting digestate. During her research process, Gwen had the opportunity to interview multiple industry experts and visit several compost and anaerobic digestion facilities in Minnesota and Illinois. Now, Gwen works to raise awareness of new compost drop-off sites in Robbinsdale, MN, as a member of the Minnesota GreenCorps. Gwen is excited to try different outreach methods she has seen work in other cities and help further the transition to composting.
As a member of the Illinois Food Scrap and Composting Coalition (the sponsoring organization of the USCC Illinois Chapter), Gwen served on the Outreach Committee and participated in the Young Professionals Group. In this role, she helped to develop compost presentation materials, including a slide deck to help engage new audiences on the how and why of composting. Gwen is now a member of the USCC YP Outreach Committee.
Congratulations to Gwen for her contributions to the composting industry and for her dedication as a new member of the YP Outreach Committee.
