Staff

Stacy Ahua, Executive Director
Stacy is a native of Hattiesburg, MS. She previously served as Director of Volunteer Southeast Mississippi at United Way of Southeast Mississippi before relocating to join the Alzheimer’s Association of Eastern North Carolina in 2019. In addition to years of volunteer coordination and program management, Stacy brings almost a decade of organizational development and logistics experience to Every Tray Counts.

Board Members

Shannon Culpepper, President 
Shannon joined the Chatham County Solid Waste and Recycling Division in November 2015. As the Waste Reduction Coordinator she manages the county’s recycling, waste reduction, and household hazardous waste programs, and manages the staff at twelve collection centers. Shannon provides outreach and education to residents, community groups, children, and students throughout Chatham County. She is currently working to get composting started at all Chatham County public schools. She Completed a Master of Public Administration and Environmental Studies Graduate Certificate from UNC Wilmington in May 2013. Shannon is also currently the past-president of Environmental Educators of North Carolina; a non-profit working to build connections, provide professional development, and promote excellence in environmental education. 

Julie Hall, Treasurer
Julie Hall has come to the ETC Board as part of her mission to ‘Save the World’, something she’s been working on since high school environmental club.  Julie works as an environmental educator with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and has served on the PTA board at her children’s school along with founding and coordinating their school garden. Julie is a lifelong member of another non-profit, Environmental Educators of NC, and has worked in the field of environmental education for over 20 years at various nature preserves. You could probably guess her hobbies: hiking, gardening, and observing nature and all its wonder!

Jeffie Hardin, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Educational Programs, Energy & Environment Innovation Foundation, LLC (EEIF). Jeffie has worked with numerous businesses and schools in the Charlotte area through her role as a farmer, elementary school garden coordinator, middle school Green Team leader, and a non-profit educational director.   

Noah Marsh, Vice-President
Noah and his wife Sarah started a company, Food FWD, to divert food waste from ending up in a landfill. Instead they take it to be composted so it can then grow more food. Whenever Noah isn’t found driving a garbage truck collecting food waste to be composted he spends time with his family reading aloud together and taking long walks with the puppies.  Noah volunteers as a platelet donor with the American Red Cross, participates in Don’t Waste Durham, serves on the Board of Every Tray Counts, and acts as the NC Composting Council Host for its networking night Sustainable Spirits when held in Durham.

Sue Scope, Co-Founder and former Executive Director (2014-2020). Sue has volunteered in the public schools since her kids started kindergarten. She has been involved in the PTA, the School Improvement Team, and as a classroom volunteer. Sue became interested in applying the idea of “reduce, reuse, and recycle” in the public school system, and, combined with an interest in using compostable products when possible, began researching how this principle could be applied in schools. Now that compostable products are getting cheaper and more compost facilities are available, she feels that this is the right time to integrate new systems into the public schools. She is dedicated to bringing composting and food waste diversion to the school lunchrooms in North Carolina.

Leigh Williams
Leigh lives in Cary NC with her husband and two school-aged daughters. She is the founder of the Northwoods School Garden at Northwoods Elementary in Cary. Leigh started living a “toward zero waste” lifestyle in 2015 after reading Bea Johnson’s book Zero Waste Home. With the hope of helping others do the same, she co-founded the nonprofit Toward Zero Waste in 2016. In addition to serving on the board of Every Tray Counts, she is a United Methodist Earthkeeper, chairs her church’s Creation Care Committee, and serves on the NC Conference Creation Care Committee for the United Methodist Church.  In 2019, Leigh and her family rolled their 95 gallon curbside bin to the curb only once, in the end of November!

Advisors

Amy Brooks Fulford is a North Carolina native from Goldston, growing up on a dairy farm in the 80’s. During the mid-90’s the family farm transitioned a 30 acre parcel into the first level 3 permitted compost facility in North Carolina that went on to become a provider of soil amendments to farms, landscapes, and bioremediation efforts. Amy has a bachelor’s from North Carolina State University in Natural Resources with a concentration in Soil and Water Systems; is a founding board member, past president and current advisor to the North Carolina Composting Council; is the current treasurer of the North Carolina Industrial Hemp Association; and is on the board of directors of the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association. She is an assistant manager at Brooks Compost Facility and part owner of Brooks Contractor, where she manages food scraps collection and compost sales along with research and development. Farm roots have kept her involved with horses, cattle, chicken, goats and hogs with a quest for healthy animals through a healthy soil profile. She resides with her husband and step son, where they work to restore old forgotten farmland into productive pastures and crop land. Goals for Every Tray Counts would include giving all school aged children in North Carolina the opportunity to learn about waste reduction through the action of their own hands, and enjoy delicious and healthy farm-to-table meals as a result of that action.

Teresa Baker currently serves as Recycle & Sustainability Coordinator Granville County Public Schools – Granville County. She created her job as “Recycle Lady” in 2009 by implementing a program to collect and haul recyclables through the county and school systems contracted hauler, Waste Industries. The program has grown over the years with a wide array of accepted recyclables within the schools and community as well.  Serving as an advisor to Every Tray Counts adds to her motto that “the possibilities are endless” when it comes to ways to recycle and divert school trash.

Founding Members

L. Bingham Roenigk

Sue Scope

Past Board Members

We thank all the past members of the multiple iterations of this nonprofit organization for their commitments, ideas, and actions to make this a better state for composting.

Luma Kennedy

Stephanie Anderson

Sara Johnson

Michi Njeri

Fadia Kasawne

Susan Budziszewski

Bobby Hartman

Melanie Middleton