Joan L. Bavaria

Ms. Bavaria founded Trillium in 1982.
Ms. Bavaria sits on the boards of CERES, Earth Justice Legal Defense Fund, The Center for Environmental Leadership in Business and LightHawk.
She is also on the Dean's Committee for International Development at Harvard University's John F.
Kennedy School of Government, the Advisory Board of the Greening of Industry Network and the Advisory Board of the Corporate Environmental Management Program at the University of Michigan.
Ms. Bavaria is currently on the Dean's Committee for International Development at Harvard University's John F.
Kennedy School of Government.
She sits on the Boards of Ceres, the Global Reporting Initiative, Earthjustice and Earth Day Network.
She is on the Advisory Boards of Union of Concerned Scientists and Greening of Industry Network.
She was a Board member and Secretary of Green Seal from 1991 - 1999, and served as Chair of the National Advisory Committee for Policy & Technology's subcommittee, Community Based Environmental Policy, which advises the EPA.
Ms. Bavaria has also served on the Boards of Directors of LightHawk for fifteen years, The Council on Economic Priorities for twelve years, the Industrial Cooperative Association Loan Fund for ten years and several other Advisory boards.
In November of 1999 Ms. Baravia was lauded as "Hero for the Planet" by Time.com.
Other awards include the New England Women Business Owners (NEWBO) Woman of the Year award in 1994, and two regional awards from Working Women Magazine and their Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards in March of 1999.
For the past 20 years, Joan has been widely published and has done extensive public speaking and media work.
She served as an Investment Officer of the Bank of Boston from 1969 to 1975.
Her education included Massachusetts College of Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the Chartered Financial Analyst program.