Justine Burt

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Justine Burt is a founding member of the Wala team. Serving as the chief green officer, Justine directs sustainability strategy and vision for Greenwala. With the goal of achieving dynamic equilibrium between humanity and the environment that supports us, she seeks to educate the larger community on topical sustainability issues and inspire change.

Justine has a solid grounding in environmental sustainability from her work at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a Fortune 500® scientific, engineering and technology applications company. SAIC applies deep domain knowledge to solve problems of vital importance to the nation and the world, in national security, energy and the environment, critical infrastructure, and health. During an eight-year span at the Oakland, Calif. location, she was a senior project manager working with clients such as NASA and StopWaste.org.

For two years, Justine served as the consulting sustainability manager at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. She inspired multi-disciplinary teams with a vision of a sustainable future and implemented projects involving energy efficiency, renewable energy, green building, reclaimed water, waste prevention, recycling and native plant gardens.

During her five-year relationship with StopWaste.org, she led a talented SAIC team for the award-winning StopWaste.org program, which helped businesses, public agencies and institutions divert 54,000 tons of non-hazardous solid waste from landfills in Alameda County, Calif.

Prior to joining SAIC, Justine was a program specialist for the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, a state environmental agency, where she lead communications explaining complex environmental regulatory statutes to small business managers.
She earned her master’s degree in Environmental Policy from Tufts University in Medford, MA, and her bachelor’s degree in Economics from Lafayette College in Easton, PA.

Justine is a member of the Young Women’s Social Entrepreneurs in San Francisco and the Sustainable Business Alliance in Oakland, Calif. She taught a class through the University of California Berkeley Extension program entitled “Overcoming Barriers to Implementing Sustainability Projects” and has made presentations at many sustainability conferences over the course of her career.

Justine resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and son. She enjoys gourmet vegetarian cooking, hiking and yoga.