Join us this Saturday, June 8th from 10:00-12:00 in celebration of World Oceans Day! We are partnering with Olympia’s Clean Team to pick up trash downtown before it gets washed into Puget Sound and becomes marine debris. Our primary target: cigarette butts that didn’t find their way into one of our sweet canisters (curious? check out our Hold On To Your Butts program). Meet us on the steps of City Hall at 10:00 am – we’ll provide buckets, bags, gloves, and pickers (but feel free to BYO, especially gloves). We’ll split into different groups so we can divide and conquer, cleaning up different routes throughout the city. Afterwards, we’ll rendezvous back at at City Hall by 11:30 am for a photo-opp and to dispose of the trash.
A Florida native, Liz started her career as a marine biologist, working with sea turtles and commercial fisheries in the Florida Keys and spending her vacation time teaching at Duke University's marine science summer camp. While completing her master's degree in Sustainable Development & Conservation Biology from the University of Maryland, she taught sustainability to undergraduate students while also volunteering as a docent at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s Ocean Hall and leading overnight camps at the National Zoo. After graduating, she got hitched and moved out west, where she’s spent several years studying salmon and streams and trying to embrace this thing called elevation. She learned about Surfrider’s programs and campaigns as the Olympia Chapter’s Volunteer Coordinator before being hired on as the Washington Regional Manager. When she’s not supporting our five Washington chapters and three BC chapters in their amazing work, she likes to run on trails, bike around volcanoes, freedive, play frisbee, read in the sun with her chickens, play guitar when no one's around, and make maps. Liz has a special fondness for swamps, cypress trees, and thunderstorms, is recreationally obsessed with ocean sunfish, and will shamelessly eat any unattended leftovers.