Hi, I’m Ashlee.
A former political strategist who's turned decidedly not-stuffy, but totally data-backed sustainability expert. For over a decade, I've helped individuals, households and organizations rock their sustainability goals and maximize their positive impact. I also talk sustainable living on TV, at major conferences and in my bestselling book.
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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. Piper 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, sustainability instructor for LinkedIn Learning, and holds a BA from Brown University, a Master’s degree in Evidence-Based Social Intervention from the University of Oxford, UK, and a Masters 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.