About This Webinar
Pre- Covid, supply chain transparency was emerging as a primary concern for certain segments of consumers. With the 2020 shining a spotlight on supply chains, there is an even broader interest in not just the availability of products but also the supply chain impacts. Consumers are increasingly looking to better understand the impact of the products they buy through product information and labels across social and environmental dimensions including: carbon impact, human rights protection, or post-consumer recycled materials. Although some companies have been on the journey towards supply chain transparency for many years, only now is it really becoming “mainstream”. In this discussion we will explore the evolution of supply chain transparency, what are current innovations in this space, and what we might expect going forward.
Presenters
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    Kelly Cramer
    Director of Program Management and Lead of How2Recycle, GreenBlue
    Kelly Cramer leads the How2Recycle program within Sustainable Packaging Coalition and is Director, Program Management at GreenBlue. How2Recycle is the next generation recycling label for packaging that helps people recycle more, and recycle better. Under her leadership, the How2Recycle program has grown more than 40% each year, and has strategically scaled its operations to successfully influence brands to change their packaging design to be more recyclable. In 2017 she co-created the new Essentials of Sustainable Packaging training course and facilitated its digital launch in 2018, and most recently shaped and managed the development of Sustainable Packaging Coalition's Design for Recycled Content Guide to help brands meet their circularity goals. Kelly has spoken at many events, conferences and universities such as GreenBiz, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, and the Walmart Packaging Sustainability Summit about topics ranging from trends in ecommerce packaging to behavior change to why were all asking the wrong questions about circular economy. Kelly loves the challenge and fun in managing change in an accelerating, complex world, and she is driven to empower people with the right insights so they can make real impact.

    Kelly holds a J.D. in Environmental Law from Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon and an undergraduate degree in psychology and Spanish from the University of Tennessee.
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    Dr. Alexis Bateman
    Director, MIT Sustainable Supply Chains
    Alexis Bateman is a Research Scientist and Director of MIT Sustainable Supply chains. MIT Sustainable Supply Chains brings together researchers from across MIT to advance supply chain sustainability, engaging on educational initiatives, research with industrial partners, and outreach around supply chain sustainability. Her research has been featured in numerous academic and industry outlets including Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Sloan Management Review, Supply Chain Management Review, and many others.

    She also serves as a course lead and instructor for the MITx MicroMasters in Supply Chain Management, a pioneering program in digital education reaching 100,000s of supply chain professionals around the world.

    Alexis has over fifteen years of experience in sustainability in the public sector, industry, and academic settings. She engages closely with industrial partners, public agencies and sits on several sustainability committees and advisory boards for major companies, industry associations, and non-governmental organizations. Alexis was also recently awarded the Global Woman Supply Chain Leader Award in Academic Excellence in 2020.

    Prior to joining MIT, Alexis worked with the City of Santa Ana, the Orange County Transportation Authority, and the Los Angeles River Revitalization Plan where she managed and led projects on sustainability. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine in Environmental Planning and Management and Masters in Urban and Regional Planning.
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