Category: 2022 BOD Candidates

Alina Bekkerman, Incumbent, Member since 2017
I have been a member of the NCRA board since 2017, and as the newest Board Secretary, I supported the development of the newly formed Executive Committee and updated a number of our documentation procedures. I am excited to create opportunities for sharing information about all the great work the NCRA board accomplishes annually.

The DEI committee has been an important element of the organization’s shifting paradigm. As the former Co-chair and current member of this committee, we’ve made great progress in the last three years and we know there is more ahead. I look forward to organizing more in-person and online events, as MEAC Chair, to connect and engage our members locally and nationally through our common goal of a world without waste.

Over the past two years, NCRA has organized an array of events and online content. I have been lucky to not only take part in but also help organize DEI Salons, RU 2020 and 2021, NCRA Schools Webinars, the most recent NCRA Members Picnic, our upcoming Fall Board & Members Meeting, and much more!

This thriving organization has so much to offer the recycling and waste prevention community and I would like to continue to represent the NCRA board through the next two years. It would be an honor to have your support in my candidacy for the next NCRA term.

Julia Au, Incumbent, Member since 2019
I would be honored to continue to serve on the NCRA Board. For the past two years I have had the pleasure of serving as co-Treasurer/Finance Committee member and co-chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee. During this time, I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate on important DEI and fiscal work, including putting together a DEI salon and working with a DEI consultant.

If re-elected to the Board, I want to continue to make NCRA more inclusive, while also ensuring it’s a welcoming place to the diversity that the waste and recycling industry in northern California brings. I want to work to create additional and welcoming avenues for members to be engaged, active, and involved, while continuing to be innovative in how we do it.

I’ve learned a lot about NCRA and our community the last two years and while we have made some strides, there is still so much room to grow and learn from one another as we continue to tackle the major issues of the moment from 1383 to plastics pollution. I would be grateful in getting to continue to celebrate our differences, while tackling the environmental issues that affect us all. Thank you and I humbly ask for your vote.