Swati Sharma has 15 years of professional experience as an environmental health leader with expertise in toxicology, implementation of sustainable practices and environmental preferable purchasing.

 

She has been committed to fighting for environmental justice, worker’s rights, women’s rights, environmental health, and social justice. She has extensive experience in toxics reductions strategies, pollution prevention polices, and sustainable business practices and has worked with a variety of industries to implement safer products. She previously worked for San Francisco’s Department of Environment, where she helped over 500 businesses implement sustainability practices. With expertise ranging from health and environmental impacts of toxic chemicals, to safer product ratings and hazardous waste compliance, Swati has experience in both product evaluation, implementation as well as training. Swati brings extensive business process knowledge, communication, and community experience and has technical knowledge of green chemistry as well as federal/state health and environmental regulatory compliance. Swati received her B.S. from UCLA in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics and her M.S. in Global Environmental Health and Toxicology from UC Berkeley.