SEGO Initiative’s Ocean Awareness & Activation Season
Online Ocean Education Sessions

SEGO Initiative, a not-for-profit association dedicated to environmental causes,
is offering online webinar sessions as part of its educational programming toraise awareness and inspire people to take action against the issues facing theoceans and the planet.
The sessions are a lead-up to the association’s second #TogetherApart International Coastal Cleanup. For morethan a decade, SEGO Initiative has been organizing the Fujisawa Beach Cleaning Project/Clean S.E.A. The Project
includes three pillars:•••

Volunteering with the participation of corporate,family and student volunteers
Public education via citizen science and art
Reconnecting to the marine environment that weare trying to protect via sailing

The fall cleanups are part of the International Coastal
Cleanup Campaign (ICC) that is held annually in more than
100 countries. Due to Covid-19, the association will once
again lead #TogetherApart ICC cleanups for volunteers toconnect, clean and collect close to where they live, workor play. As always, all debris will be counted and results
aggregated so that participants can know how much they
have intercepted from the waste stream that inevitably
leads to our oceans.
This fall programming only happens with the generous
support of our corporate sponsors. But we do need yourhelp. As we expand into winter and spring programming,
we would be more than happy to welcome new supporters!

More information can be found on the Expo Mer Fujisawa
website, SEGO Initiative’s online space dedicated to sharing
inspiring artworks and featuring a diverse array of speakers
and artists who offer local, regional and global perspectives.
https://art.segoinitiative.org/sessions/Webinar program sponsored by:Date: Oct. 14, 2021 | Time: 6­–7pm | Platform: Zoom | Language: English
Topic: Ocean Solutions with TerraCycle Japan and the International Trash Trap Network
Organizer: 一般社団法人SEGO Initiative
Contact: Alana Bonzi alana@segoinitiative.org
For registration and inquiries: art.segoinitiative.org/sessions

SPEAKERS’ BIOS
Eric Kawabata, APAC General Manager at TerraCycle Japan / Loop Japan
Eric has worked in sustainability for 12 years, starting as a volunteer in 2008 withCarbon Free Consulting in Japan.
In 2009, he co-founded a non-profit project, Ocean Green Association, to studymeans to lower coastal water temperatures after seeing their impact on coastal
ecology and bleaching of coral reefs in Japan.
Beginning work with TerraCycle in 2013, he officially launched the company in Asia,
starting in Japan in January 2014. He subsequently became Asia Pacific Regional
Manager in 2016, and launched TerraCycle in China in the fall of 2016 and TerraCycle
Korea in the fall of 2017. He has worked with sponsors such as P&G, L’Oreal, Kao andLION. Prior to his work in sustainability, he was an international research student inlaw at the University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, worked as legal
counsel for Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank and served as an executive in theinvestment banking industry, leading privatization and corporate finance teams.

Cassandra Sherlock, Former Community Outreach andResearch Specialist at University of Toronto Trash Team
Cassandra Sherlock is currently a Master of Environmental Studies student studying
sustainability management at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
She received her Honours Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto (U of T),
where she specialized in ecology and evolutionary biology. During her time at U of T,
Cassandra was a research assistant in microplastic researcher Chelsea Rochman’s lab,
where she spent two years investigating the presence and effects of microplastics indifferent aquatic and terrestrial systems and organisms.
She just spent the past year working with the U of T Trash Team as a community
outreach and research specialist, increasing waste literacy in the community while
reducing plastics in our ecosystems.

MODERATOR’S BIO
Simon Bray, Executive Director, J.P. Morgan | JPM Go Green Japan
Simon is the lead and founding member of J.P. Morgan’s Go Green chapter in Japan.
Go Green’s mission is to harness the collective power of the firm’s employees to makea positive contribution towards the environment and climate change. Go Green aims
to give all employees access to environmental education, information and events
to encourage a focus on sustainability both at work and at home. Simon has beenleading the Japan chapter’s efforts since 2019, including overseeing and organizing
awareness events, speaker sessions and environmental cleanups.

SEGO Initiative
Michel and Alana Bonzi
FoundersSEGO grew out of our Fujisawa Beach Cleaning Project, which westarted in 2009. Its goal was to bring foreign and Japanese people
together to give back to the local community. We are based 800 metersfrom the sea in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, and as both of us are
originally from coastal areas, it was natural for us to look to the ocean
and beach as the best way for us to meet our goal. Volunteers aremainly staff from corporate sponsors, their families and local youth. Overtime, the Project has evolved into three key pillars: volunteering, public
education via citizen science and art, and reconnecting to the marine
environment via sailing.