Hillary Near

Commercial Zero Waste Senior Coordinator, City and County of San Francisco.

Hilary Near serves as Commercial Zero Waste Senior Coordinator at the City and County of San Francisco.

She has worked in Zero Waste for over a decade in various municipal and private organizations including StopWaste, City of Oakland and Cascadia Consulting Group. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley in Geography and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from San Francisco State University. She has also served on the U.S. Composting Council’s Compostable Products Task Force and Northern California Recycling Association Board.