Speaking

Talks, presentations, and briefings.

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Jennie Romer speaking at the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Joint Public Advisory Committee
Joint Public Advisory Committee, Commission for Environmental Cooperation (U.S./Canada/Mexico).

Audience tracks

Book Talks & Community Events

Talks built around Can I Recycle This? with interactive Q&A. For libraries, bookstores, schools, and community organizations, including Earth Month programming.

Conferences & Presentations

Presentations, panel participation, panel moderation, and workshop facilitation on plastic pollution and recycling systems.

Corporate Talks & Lunch-and-Learns

Employee sustainability sessions on recycling myths, sustainable procurement, packaging, and safer chemicals.

Policy & Professional Audiences

Plastic pollution policy, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), reuse systems, safer chemicals, and lessons from federal, state, and local policy work.

In practice
Jennie Romer on a panel at the Electronics Sustainability Summit, 2025

Panel on electronics circularity at the Electronics Sustainability Summit.

2025 · Photo: SERI (Sustainable Electronics Recycling International).
Jennie Romer on a panel on low embodied carbon at New York Climate Week, 2024

Panel on low embodied carbon at New York Climate Week.

2024 · Photo: U.S. Department of Energy.
Jennie Romer on a Yale Planetary Solutions panel on sustainable chemistries, 2024

Yale Planetary Solutions panel on incentivizing transitions to more sustainable chemistries.

2024 · Photo: American Chemical Society.
Jennie Romer book talk at Irvington Public Library, 2023

Family book talk and Q&A from Can I Recycle This? at Irvington Public Library, NY — for kids and adults.

2023 · Photo: Charlotte E. Binns.
Jennie Romer speaking at Montana State University on pollution prevention, 2022

Speaking at Montana State University on EPA pollution-prevention work on state and tribal lands.

2022 · Photo: Montana State University News.
Just Salad logo

Featured as an outside expert in Just Salad's Sustainability Report — delivered a one-hour sustainability training to Just Salad employees on plastic pollution and recycling policy.

2021 · Source: Just Salad Sustainability Report.
Jennie Romer testifying before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on plastic pollution policy, 2020

Federal testimony before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on plastic-pollution legislation.

2020 · Photo: Surfrider Foundation.
Jennie Romer

About the speaker

Jennie Romer has spent two decades on plastic pollution policy — influential in writing San Francisco's and New York's first plastic-bag laws, leading the Plastic Pollution Initiative at the Surfrider Foundation, serving at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pollution Prevention, and directing North America policy at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. She now leads Romer Advisory and is the author of Can I Recycle This? (Penguin Random House, 2021).

She speaks to community, corporate, conference, and policy audiences in person and virtually, and is comfortable on stages from local bookstore book talks to multinational policy convenings.

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