Eleanor Saunders
Research Associate

Eleanor Saunders joined INFORM as a Research Associate after a year-long internship in its waste prevention program. Her involvement with waste prevention and extended producer responsibility -- the notion that producers should be held responsible for what they manufacture “from cradle to grave” -- arose from an interest in specific policy initiatives that could support more sustainable practices in our highly consumptive society. In 2007, she completed a post-graduate certificate program at Columbia University's Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, where she focused on the interplay between policy and ecology.

Before moving into the field of environmental issues, Eleanor worked for many years as a clinical psychologist and researcher, with a teaching affiliation at Harvard Medical School. Prior education includes an undergraduate degree in art history from Brown University and a doctorate in clinical psychology from the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research.