Mia Reyes - Executive Director - started with Eco Encore in February 2009. Her passion for sustainable practices stemmed out of her time studying and living in Southern India in an eco-village in college. Following her travels, Mia pursued work within local environmental and social justice organizations within the Seattle area. Currently she splits her time with Eco Encore and a Domestic Violence Women's organization, as well as serving on the Advisory Board for the Penny Harvest program, a youth philanthropy non-profit, and is actively involved with Crooked Trails, a responsible traveling non-profit, and Oasis Entertainment, an international music charity organization.
In her spare time she enjoys traveling and has backpacked her way through Ghana, India, China, Vietnam, Cambodia and the rest of Southeast Asia. One of the highlights of her adventures abroad was traveling to the home of the Dalai Lama in Dharmasala, India and attending the March for Peace rally.
Alex Quintus - Operations Assistant - started at Eco Encore as a volunteer in late February 2008. A recent graduate of the Sartori Education Center, he entered Eco Encore through the career resources and support program Mainstay, a supplier for volunteers and counselor for eventual employment.
In his spare time, Alex travels throughout the King County area wherever public transportation is available, both for leisure and for further learning experiences.
Alex Russell - Public Relations and Media Volunteer - has worked as a car salesman, plumber, handyman and freelance writer since completing his undergraduate in literature and journalism at UC Santa Cruz in 2004. He has written for print about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for publications in 
California and Mexico, and has been recently been researching extensively the policy and process of municipal waste management and recycling in the Puget Sound region.
In his spare time Alex enjoys taking four-hour rides on his bike through Seattle scouting for places and people to photograph. He writes fiction and creative non-fiction, and reads his poetry at open mic venues all over town. On lazier days he likes to relax at home or at the park with his wife and two dogs.
Emily Dresibach- Events and Community Relations Intern - Emily graduated with a degree in Environmental Studies from Pitzer College in California in May 2009. Her passion for travel and especially for Latin America has led her to Panama, where she studied abroad for a year in high school; to Brazil, where she spent a semester living in Rio; and to Costa Rica, where she studied in college.
In addition to interning with Eco Encore, she interns with the local nonprofit Climate Solutions. She enjoys writing and hopes to one day work as a journalist. She has worked extensively as a lifeguard and in various customer service positions in bars and restaurants around Seattle, and she hopes to return to graduate school or join the Peace Corps in the near future.
Mieko Krell - Community Relations Intern - is thrilled to join the Eco Encore team as an intern. She graduated in 2004 from Sarah Lawrence College
with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. While there her class work in the Environmental Studies Department won her a renewing, merit-based scholarship. A member of an on-campus club called Grassroots Mieko also took part in successfully researching and lobbying campus administration to convert to exclusive recycled paper use. In 2004 she attended the Notheast Climate Conference at Harvard University; Won a competition to have her artwork published on all Commencement mailings and programs, and that fall produced a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee. Mieko joins Eco Encore with a background in Marketing. She held an internship in the fall of 2003 at Signature Theater Company directly assisting the Director of Marketing. From 2005 to 2007 she worked in the Fashion Industry in the production end of Marketing as a Freelance Assistant Stylist. She worked for companies such as Nordstroms, Eddie Bauer, Iridio Photography Studios and Macy’s. Currently Mieko spends her free time volunteering for Solid Ground; The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI); Alternative School One; KEXP and Interconnections.
