
Alaina Wood
Sustainability Scientist; Climate Communicator; Founder, The Garbage Queen
Alaina Wood is the founder of the science education platform The Garbage Queen and a host for the climate-solutions media company Pique Action. A sustainability scientist with a background in waste and water, she was previously an environmental planner for the State of Tennessee and an environmental compliance officer for a private landfill firm now owned by Republic Services. Wood became a climate communicator at the beginning of the pandemic and focuses her work on addressing climate anxiety through producing videos on climate solutions, activism, and science.