Jackie Criger

Jackie Criger is a student at Santa Rosa Junior College where she is majoring in Environmental Studies. She plans to attend Sonoma State next year and has hopes to one day practice Environmental Law. She is a community volunteer in Sebastopol were she helped create an initiative to to remove plastic and bio-plastic cutlery from the weekly farmer’s market. After attending a city council meeting and pitching her ideas to Sebastopol Climate Action and with the support of Recology, the idea became a reality. She believes in working to make our communities at home, as well as our global community, more resilient through collective action and individual actions that aim to implement creative solutions to the complex problems we all face today.