2024 Women’s Environmental Leadership Summit

Support / Engage / Connect

Hosted by: Tennessee Recycling Coalition

Thursday, October 3ʳᵈ - 4ᵗʰ, 2024 Nashville Sonesta
Hotel Conference Center


Draft Agenda

Thursday, October 3ʳᵈ

Registration 9:30 am- 10:00 am 
9:30 am - 10:00 am Light breakfast

9:45 am- Welcome & Introductions
Amber Greene, TRC Executive Director

10:00 am- Lizzette Reynolds, Commissioner of Education
The relationship of strong academic instruction in science and math for women in secondary education and the importance of continuing this focus in postsecondary pathways

10:30 am Tiffany Wilmot, President of Wilmot, Inc. &
Annie Slaughter, Wilmot Project Coordinator
Omohundro: The World's Most Sustainable Water Treatment Plant

11:00 am-Jenny Lawson, Keep America Beautiful President
The Greatest American Cleanup

11:30 am-Korey Drake, Robertson County Solid Waste Director
Women in County Government Solid Waste

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Lunch in Capitol Room 1

1:00 pm- Michelle Hamman, FD Energy Solutions
The Role of Commissioning in Sustainability

1:30 pm-Alisa Kyle, WM & Molly Morrisey, WM

2:00 pm-2:15 pm Break

2:15 pm- Abby Schneider, The Environmental Council; Recycle Tennessee Program Director Educating Communities on how to Recycle Right

2:35 pm- Lindsay Ross, Wayne County Solid Waste

3:00 pm-Senator Heidi Campbell & Maris Masellis, Tennessee Environmental Council
Extended Producer Responsibility Bill Panel

3:30 pm-TBA

5:00 pm to 7:30 pm Jackalope Brewery Company Tour & 
A Conversation with Bailey Spaulding, Jackalope CEO
Transportation is provided to the event & back. 

Friday, October 4ᵗʰ

8:00 am – 8:30 am Breakfast in Capital Room 1

8:30 am Missy Marshall, Keep Tennessee Beautiful Executive Director & Marianne Dunavant, Community Relations Manager Ford Blue Oval

9:00 am- Misty Newby, Lipscomb MS in Sustainability
Lessons Learned from Women in Sustainability Panel with Students

9:30 am-Jenn Harrman, Merto Nashville
Food Scraps Pickup Pilot program learning

10:00 am- Mary-Margaret A. Fill Deputy State Epidemiologist
Communicable and Environmental Diseases and Emergency Preparedness

10:30 am to 11:00 am- Drive to tour Omohundro Water Treatment Plant Tour

11:00 am to 1:00 pm- Nashville Omohundro Water Treatment Plant Tour
Address: 1400 Pumping Station Rd, Nashville, TN 37210 
Please register here for the tour if you would like to attend. 


Mail all checks to TRC 
P.O. Box 23796 Nashville, TN 37202