Ashlee Piper
Ashlee Piper is a sustainability expert, TV personality, author, and globally recognized speaker whose work has been featured on 310+ television segments, including The TODAY Show, Good Morning America, LIVE with Kelly & Mark, and CNN, and in VOGUE, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Marie Claire, The Atlantic, and Newsweek. Piper‘s 2018 book, Give A Sh*t: Do Good. Live Better. Save the Planet. (Running Press) has been hailed as a “sustainability Bible” by celebrities and reviewers.
She’s consulted on sustainability practices with well-known companies such as Airbnb, LUSH, Nissan, and Eileen Fisher, has been a cabinet-level advisor to two Massachusetts Governors, and is a judge for the Marie Claire Sustainability Awards. Piper has spoken at the United Nations, SXSW, and has a popular TED Talk. She is also the creator of the #NoNewThings Challenge, which received a 2022 Silver Stevie Award for Best Nonprofit Innovation and is set to be published as her second book in 2025 by Celadon Books.
Piper has been a Professor of Sustainability Marketing at Loyola University Chicago, eco instructor for LinkedIn Learning, and holds a BA from Brown University, an MSc in Evidence-Based Social Intervention from the University of Oxford, UK, and an MA in Holistic Health from IIN/Columbia University.
She lives in Chicago with Skip, an 18-pound cat she found behind a dumpster, in a home that’s 98% secondhand. You can find her drinking Sugar-Free Red Bull and vodka and singing Seal’s “Kiss From A Rose” at any not-so-fine karaoke establishment.
Ashlee Piper is a speaker for F#ck Middle Age: A Day in The Midst, Oct. 19, 2024.