The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) welcomed Anthony Viardo as their new director of marketing & digital communications.
Viardo comes to SWANA from the U.S. Energy Storage Association (ESA) – a non-profit trade association advocating for the clean energy sector – and after working three years as director of marketing and communications at the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA), which represents the public clean water sector. While at NACWA, Viardo helped to shape and ultimately get passed into law the federal Water Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2019, which codified the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “Integrated Planning” approach to infrastructure investment; and also to shape Congress’ Fiscal Year 2018 Omnibus Spending Package, which greatly increased federal water infrastructure investment nationwide.
Viardo also has experience in the trade publishing industry and as a television journalist, after earning a Master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Published in the March 2020 Edition
