Jessica Landman

Even before she earned her nickname ‘sludge queen’ for her (successful) lawsuit against EPA to get the agency to control the toxic contaminants in sewage sludge used for fertilizer, Jessica has been a fierce and always data-driven advocate for people-friendly results. From the halls of Congress to the European Parliament to the meeting rooms of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Jessica is known as a keen strategist who combines policy wonk tendencies with political savvy and can build advocacy networks around shared concerns in order to design solutions that work for everyone.

Jessica has over 3 decades of experience as an advocate for natural resource conservation and law, having organized and led coalitions of community leaders in the US, Europe, and beyond. She’s held senior positions in major conservation organizations, including the Environmental Defense Fund, WWF’s European Policy Office in Brussels, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and SeaWeb. Before joining the ranks of the nonprofit world Jessica worked in Congress and the federal government, so she knows how policy-making looks from inside and outside of government.