Analiese is Waukesha County’s Solid Waste Supervisor, overseeing a MRF in collaboration with the City of Milwaukee, a HHW program, electronics program, yard and wood waste program, and an extensive education program. Prior to her position with Waukesha County she worked in the City of Milwaukee’s recycling program. One of her biggest accomplishments was starting the curbside organics collection program. She also was the Education Manager for an environmental non-profit and a classroom teacher.

Due to her background, Analiese brings a strong public education expertise to the group as well as an understanding of how messages and programs resonate in urban and suburban areas of the state. She is an engaged AROW member, previously chairing the CME committee and serving as the Vice President. She was elected as President in 2022.

Betsy has been in the solid waste management field for over 20 years.  She is a senior civil engineer/project manager with SCS Engineers.  She has worked with private and public sectors on landfill design, permitting and construction; C&D and yard waste management; and composting operations.  Betsy has recently worked with other solid waste colleagues on a WDNR alternative capping group subcommittee.  She is very interested in using education and outreach as a means of increasing the quality of recycling and diverting materials from landfills into productive use.  Her interest in recycling and waste reduction stems from unspoken lessons learned from her parents and a desire to make a difference.  Betsy is a member of AROW and SWANA.  She was elected as Vice-President in 2022.

Jennifer is the Waste Reduction and Diversion Coordinator for the WI Department of Natural Resources.  Prior to joining the DNR in 2016, Jennifer worked for nearly 17 years as the Recycling Specialist for Winnebago County Solid Waste. Jennifer also served as past President, VP and Treasurer of AROW and is presently the Vice-Chair of the AROW Product Stewardship and Community Education & Marketing Committees.  In addition, Jennifer is on the Board of Directors of the national Product Stewardship Institute (PSI), serving on the Finance Committee and Executive Committee as Clerk, and is the proud recipient of the 2013 Christy Dixon Recycler of the Year Award.

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As the statewide recycling coordinator, Jennifer brings her perspective, skills and experience to the statewide work of AROW. There are a number of areas of collaboration between the DNR and AROW, including joint work on education and outreach, food and organics management, product stewardship and more.  Further, she works frequently with national groups and organizations such as the Recycling Partnership, PSI, EPA Region 5, Midwest Market Development and other states and hopes AROW can benefit from that involvement.  Jennifer was elected as Treasurer in 2022.

Amanda is Portage County's Solid Waste Director. Prior to that she served as Dunn County’s Recycling Specialist for five years and worked as the Recycling Coordinator for Eau Claire County for four of those years. She has a wealth of experience as a recycling educator as well as hands-on experience managing a Responsible Unit. Specifically, she excels at partnering with businesses and residents to increase their awareness of recycling options all while diverting materials from the landfill by finding underused specialty markets. Amanda is chairing the new Emerging Leaders Program, is and active member of the AROW Education Committee, was a participant on the AROW Glass Task Force, was instrumental in creating and bringing plastic film and bag recycling programs to Western WI and am a SWANA Certified Manager of Recycling Systems. As a representative from Western Wisconsin, she will bring a different perspective and voice to the board regarding rural and residential recycling successes and challenges. Her unique energetic presentation style engages audiences to become more active in recycling. 

Valerie joined AROW in 2019, and was elected to the AROW Board of Directors in March, 2020.  She serves as Secretary on AROW’s Membership and Product Stewardship Committees, and really enjoys collaborating with other AROW members through all the subcommittees.

She serves as Planning Technician for the Village of Weston, who she has been employed by for over 20 years.  Her primary duties are overseeing the Village’s refuse and recycling program; working with new Weston business owners in obtaining their zoning and occupancy permits; and helping residents and businesses with their building permit needs, general property questions, and anything else that may come up.  She serves as Clerk for the Village’s
Plan Commission, Zoning Board of Appeals, and Joint Town & Village of Weston Extraterritorial Zoning Committee. 

While passionate about recycling, she is also a member of SWANA and serves as the Village’s representative for Green Tier Legacy Community.

Chris has been with Brown County Port & Resource Recovery for 18 years.  The last 14 years he has been a Resource Recovery Technician managing the Brown County Hazardous Material Recovery Facility - a regional program serving the residents and counties throughout Northeast WI.  Even being a hazardous waste facility their goal is to process this difficult to manage waste stream according to the waste disposal hierarchy.  He enjoys the challenge of creating alternative outlets for material previously destined for a landfill or incinerator. 

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Chris is also the AROW Hazardous & Special Waste chair for the past six years, a member of the AROW Membership Committee, and a member of the Waste and Material Management Study Group’s Recover & Diversion subcommittee.  He feels his AROW membership, along with his experience in hazardous material, landfills, recycling, and as well as commercial waterway dredging activity, all show the need to balance aspects of natural, human, social, manufactured, and financial capital.

Mark is the Business Development Manager for the Brown County Port & Resource Recovery Department. He is responsible for managing the department's solid waste contracts, oversight of the the county’s Household Hazardous Waste Program and managing and the county's Recycling Program as well as habitat restoration and development projects for the Port of Green Bay. He has a multidisciplinary background in geographic information systems, environmental and land use impact analysis and planning. Mark has a degree in Cartography from the University of Wisconsin – Madison He has been a member of AROW since 2010 and currently is vice-chair the AROW Product Stewardship Committee. He serves on the city of Green Bay's Sustainability Commission and chairs the Wisconsin Council on Recycling.

Megen is the Environmental Program Coordinator for the City of Menomonie where she manages the Responsible Unit, a curbside recycling program, a solid waste and recycling drop-off site and a yard waste composting facility in addition to working in stormwater, urban forestry, energy and sustainability areas for the City.

Prior to her work at the City of Menomonie, Megen was a recycling specialist in Dunn and St. Croix Counties for over 6 years. Megen has 7+ years of hands-on experience managing Responsible Units and providing recycling education. She brings her perspective and experience in the challenges of rural recycling in Western Wisconsin to the AROW Board. Megen has been a member of AROW since 2014 and an active member of the AROW Communications, Marketing & Education (CME) Committee since 2015.

Meleesa Johnson was introduced to the diverse world of integrated waste materials management when she accepted a position, in 2003, with Portage County.  She served as Portage County's Solid Waste Department administrator, overseeing a MRF, landfill and transfer facility, until June 2009.  She left Portage County to take a job with Marathon County as their director of solid waste management.  Here she is charged with operating the county's landfill, expanding recycling options for the state's largest county and creating a more consistent recycling education program for the county's 63 responsible units. 

Meleesa was elected to the AROW board of directors in 2006.  In 2009 she took on an additional role on the board's Executive Committee, serving as the treasurer at one point, but most notably as the president up until 2022 when she pointedly chose to 'pass the baton' to allow others the opportunity for leadership in the organization.  Meleesa is also proud to have been a part of the 2008 strategic planning process which laid the groundwork for an expanded, more responsive AROW.