Stiv Wilson is a resister. As the Director of Campaigns for the Story of Stuff, his role is to design, execute, and lead community-sourced campaigns to measurable conservation victories. He brings over a decade of experience in grassroots advocacy, systems innovation, and campaign strategy. Wilson is a waste and plastic pollution expert who is frequently asked to speak on solutions to the vexing inefficiencies in the materials economy all over the world. Throughout his career he has created and led several campaigns to victory, from bans on plastic bags, plastic microbeads, and plastic water bottles at the state, national and international level.

Wilson has sailed over 35,000 nautical miles to four of the five oceanic ‘garbage patches,’ documenting and communicating maritime plastic pollution firsthand.