BAN's Staff
Jim Puckett, Executive Director and Founder
Jim is the co-founder and Executive Director of Basel Action Network, where he provides strategic oversight and implements and expands our programs. As an activist for over 25 years, his work on toxic waste and toxic waste trade has helped control pollution, safeguard fragile ecosystems from bio-accumulating toxins, protect the world’s poor from health hazards, and reuse the Earth’s limited resources. He has been a chief proponent of just international policies within the United Nations Basel Convention since its inception in 1989. As the only person to have attended every Conference of the Parties meeting, He supports delegates in drafting, approving, and implementing policies that protect people from the global trade of toxic waste. His assistance was crucial for creating regional waste trade agreements, such as the Bamako Convention, Central American Agreement, Waigani Treaty, and the Cartagena Convention Waste Trade Protocol. He has traveled the world researching, speaking, writing, and producing films. He was the first to investigate and expose the export of electronic waste (e-waste). BAN’s 2002 film, Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia, was the first to shine a spotlight on e-waste trade and transformed an unknown dumping practice into a well-recognized, global issue. He has since overseen creation of the e-Stewards Certification Program, which certifies electronics recyclers to the industry’s gold standard for environmental and occupational health and safety protection. Prior to establishing BAN, as Toxics Director for Greenpeace International, his regional campaigns were instrumental in generating public and government support for equitable trade policies throughout Europe. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Speech and Filmmaking from the University of Oregon.
Email: jpuckett@ban.org
Hayley Palmer, Chief Operating Officer
Hayley is the Chief Operating Officer for Basel Action Network. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a minor in legal studies and international relations and began her Masters degree in Public Policy. She was drawn to working at Basel Action Network with the desire to use her knowledge and skills to influence positive change for the environment. Additionally, she has a strong desire to educate others in consumption patterns that are environmentally sustainable and socially just. Nobody is perfect, but our daily choices matter. Her main motto is “think for yourself, live for the world”. Originally from Edmonton, AB Canada, she moved to Seattle in 2014 from Los Angeles, CA. When she’s not working at BAN, she loves backpacking, kayaking, camping, hiking, paddle boarding and pretty much anything outdoors.
Email: hayley.palmer@ban.org
David Barford, Communications Manager
David is the Communications Manager with Basel Action Network. He graduated from Oberlin Conservatory with a Bachelors in Music in 2010 and from Rice University with a Masters of Music in 2012, both focusing in oboe performance. After serving as Principal Oboe with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra for six seasons, he decided he needed a change in scenery and moved to Seattle in the spring of 2020. He has always striven to serve his community, whether that be by writing and performing educational music shows for schools, volunteering at his local food bank, fostering dogs, or now advocating for environmental justice with BAN. Originally from Philadelphia, he enjoys gardening, playing with his “tripawd” Lab named Duke, hiking, and exploring new neighborhoods of Seattle.
Email: davidb@ban.org
Lisa Crosby, Researcher
Lisa Crosby is a Researcher for Basel Action Network. Lisa has been interested in waste reduction for most of her life, following her wake up moment when she drank from a beautiful mountain creek only to see it was piled with trash a few hundred yards up-stream. Shortly thereafter she volunteered for Greenpeace NW. She has a degree in environmental science, volunteers as a mediator/facilitator and belongs to a few waste-reduction related groups including her local Solid Waste Advisory Committee in Jefferson County Washington.
Email: lisa@ban.org
Angelo Godbey
We take far too much from this world; yet, we never give back.” These words spoken by his Civil & Environmental Engineering professor at the University of Washington imbued a philosophy that led him to work at BAN. He helps the organization achieve its mission through creating custom technologies such as developing mobile apps on iOS and Android to spread awareness on the positive environmental impacts on decisions we make; creating and developing custom in-house hardware and software to track, visualize and understand toxic waste flows; materializing the big list of amazing projects we have brewing at BAN through integrating tools like Asana; or, help understand the causes and campaigns effectiveness with SalesForce. Understanding, creating and utilizing technology plays a crucial role in growing the organization, and supporting the realization of the BAN mission.
Email: angelo@ban.org
Prema George, e-Stewards Enterprise and ESG Director
Prema George is the Enterprise and ESG Director for e-Stewards. She obtained a Master of Law degree from the University of Washington with a focus on Sustainable International Development, an LLM from York University, Toronto, and a BAL LLB from Bangalore University, India. In the last ten years, her career has centered around corporate law, with an expertise in legal matters relating to technology, software, and related services. She was an in-house attorney with IBM and later a Contracts Manager with AWS Legal. She also worked with IBM and ANZ Bank for their procurement and sourcing functions with concentration on sustainability and ethical supply chain management. In her free time, she volunteered for ICycle promoting cycling in India, and dedicating time to rescuing Indian children from labor and other abuse.
Email: prema@e-stewards.org
Selena Turnock, e-Stewards Certification Director
Selena Turnock is the e-Stewards Certification Director for e-Stewards. Selena is an Environmental, Health, Safety, and Compliance professional with over eight years of experience in the e-scrap and recycling industry. As her previous role was within an e-Stewards certified organization, she is accustomed to working with the e-Stewards Standard from the recycler standpoint and uses this familiarity in her role as Certification Director. Between being an ISO 14001 certified internal auditor and holding an OSHA 10 and OSHA 30 training certification, she was also a member of the e-Stewards Standards Committee tasked with creating vV4.0 of the e-Stewards Standard.
Email: selena@e-stewards.org
Daniel Puckett, e-Stewards Business Director
Daniel Puckett is the e-Stewards Business Manager. Daniel attended his first electronics recycling conference at the age of 10! After studying at California State Polytechnic University, Daniel left school to pursue a passion for entrepreneurship. He moved back home and launched his first business, Boom Foods. While home Jim and Daniel would often bounce ideas about business and sustainability, when the opportunity to assist with e-Stewards arose he jumped at the chance. When not working on Boom or e-Stewards, he enjoys fishing, listening to podcasts, and relaxing with the family cat, Molly.
email: daniel@e-stewards.org