Coming from a long line of fishermen and coastal people, the ocean has always been part of Lyssa’s heart and her history. Joining eXXpedition is a meaningful and exciting continuation of that story.
As Senior Manager of Conservation Operations and Plastics at Ocean Conservancy, Lyssa’s work spans two worlds: building the conservation strategy, metrics, and frameworks that help teams move together, and developing the zero waste and circular economy partnerships that keep plastic out of the environment in the first place. Her time working at the intersection of community-led solutions and marine plastic pollution, particularly across Asia Pacific, has deepened her conviction that locally-led solutions aren’t just more equitable, they’re more effective. The most powerful interventions happen long before plastic ever reaches the water.
Lyssa joins eXXpedition not as a scientist, but as a practitioner. She is drawn to the connective tissue between source and sea, between community action and global impact, and between the inner work of relationship-building and the outer work of systems change.
She comes to the Arctic ready to listen, to learn, and to bring what she witnesses back to the communities and collaborators she works alongside every day.
