Timonie Hood

Biografía: Timonie is a Zero Waste and Green Building Coordinator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Pacific Southwest office in San Francisco covering California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, the Pacific Islands and 148 tribes. She served as a past Co-Chair of EPA’s Green Building Workgroup; Co-Created the EPA/AIA/Building Materials Reuse Association Lifecycle Building Challenge – an online competition on designing buildings for adaptation, disassembly, and reuse; and was the first federal LEED Accredited Professional. Recently, she hosted the EPA Resiliency and Natural Disaster Debris Virtual Workshops focusing on environmental justice and embodied carbon connections to climate adaptation and mitigation work. She also co-leads the Bay Area Deconstruction Workgroup, which has grown to be a virtual national group. She has been recognized as the Recycler of the Year by the California Resource Recovery Association and received the 2018 Bay Area Federal Employee of the Year Chair’s Award. Timonie holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Auburn University and a law degree from Arizona State University.