Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc. (GBB) announced that Jennifer Porter, GBB vice president, has been appointed as the firm’s sustainability officer. As sustainability officer for the company, she will oversee GBB’s internal sustainability efforts and lead sustainability planning assignments for clients. She will continue to spearhead activities that increase diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice within GBB and for its clients.
With 20 years of experience in government and private sector sustainability initiatives, Porter has extensive expertise in solid waste management, recycling and composting program development and evaluation. She is a certified practitioner in Zero Waste Principles and Practices by the Solid Waste Association of North America and the California Resource Recovery Association, and presents and publishes regularly on topics such as resilience, the circular economy and sustainability.
At GBB, she has managed multiple key projects including leading the team tasked with planning and implementing the development of a circular economy Sustainable Business Park with an ambitious goal in Kent County, Michigan to achieve 90 percent waste reduction by 2030. She also led multiple long-term strategic solid waste management community planning projects.
Prior to joining GBB in 2017, she was conservation program coordinator for the City of Portland, Oregon’s Office of Sustainable Development.
Published in the September 2021 Edition