Marielle Villar Martiney is an organizational strategist, community advocate, and equitable environmental policy enthusiast. Marielle currently serves as the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Good Old Lower East Side, a community-based environmental and racial justice organization dedicated to helping low-income communities of color stay in their homes and community. She was previously a single-use plastics policy expert for the New York City Mayor’s Office as well as the New York Department of Sanitation and was a Deloitte Smart Cities consultant.