Learn more about the people that make this work possible!
Click on their images to learn their story
Click on their images to learn their story
Tricia monteleone
Interim Executive Director
CNE, Broker/Realtor, Intracoastal Realty |
Areas of Expertise
Tricia received her Bachelor's Degree at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and is a real estate agent for Intracoastal Real Estate. She has spearheaded fundraising events since Plastic Ocean Project's inception and is responsible for successfully meeting the financial demands necessary to join Algalita Marine Research Foundation sail across the North Pacific in 2009, collaborate with Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences North Atlantic cruise in 2009, sail across the South Atlantic in 2010 with 5 Gyres Institute, and annual North Atlantic cruises 700 miles off the coast of North Carolina. She lines up venues for our What Goes Around, Comes Around science through art installation that is currently on tour across the United States and organizes speaking events for POP, Inc. to people of all ages and grade levels. Tricia also helps manage our social media including Plastic Ocean Project's Facebook and Instagram. Backpacking around the world in some of the more remote places on the planet, Monteleone photographed rivers and beaches spoiled by marine litter. Everywhere she went she was confronted by plastic pollution even in the most beautiful and underpopulated locales. Monteleone has shared detailed accounts on the problems with plastics on the terra ferma in distant regions of the world that only fuels her commitment to POP, Inc. She believes it is from the same brilliant ingenuity that created plastics that will help us come up with solutions to plastic marine pollution. Education
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Bonnie Monteleone
Plastic Ocean Project Co-Founder
Executive Producer of "If the Ocean Could Talk" in production and the award winning "356" documentaries |
"If not us, then who? And if not now, then when?" After journeying nearly 10,000 nautical miles, through 4 of the 5 global oceanic gyres, over the course of 3 years, Bonnie Monteleone started her fight to end plastic pollution when in September 2012, together with Paul Lorenzo, she founded the Plastic Ocean Project.
She has since traveled the world equipped with her tales of a plastic ocean and her artwork teaching people about the threat of marine debris. In the 17 years since she started her journey, she has inspired thousands of people, all over the world, to get involved and help solve the problem of plastic pollution. |
STAFF
emily mulvihill
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kayla west
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Marisa Marzilli
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Board of directors
Jenna Haverstock |
Vice President Open
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Secretary Position Open
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Francesco Monteleone |
President
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Treasurer
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Board Members
Lindsey Mccoy
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Brian Morgan |
Keith calder
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Laura dodd
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Paul Lorenzo
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Board of Advisors
william (bill) cooper, Phd
Pamela Seaton, PhD
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lisa rider
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michael fishbach
jo ruxton
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kurt lieber
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Founding members
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Bonnie Montelone
Founder; Executive Director Paul Lorenzo Founder; Treasurer Rear Admiral Leendert "Len" Hering, Sr. Champion at the Helm; Renewable Energy Integration |
Diana Dehm
Sustainability Visionary Kellie Johansen Volunteer |
