Grant Amlani

Background

About Grant Amlani

Grant is currently the Sustainability Program Manager for the University of Texas at Arlington with experience in sustainability, circularity, and social responsibility, while spending time volunteering in his community. Grant also a member of the Air North Texas Coalition, part of the Executive Committee of the Texas Regional Alliance for Campus Sustainability (TRACS), and sits on the Technical Advisory Committee of DFW Clean Cities. Grant holds an MA in Sustainability & Development from the Southern Methodist University Lyle School of Engineering and BS in Geography, with a concentration in Earth Science, from the University of North Texas (double minor in Mathematics and Spanish). In 2022, he completed a mentorship program with Clinton Global Initiative University for the year, focusing on environment & climate change in the area of waste management and sustainability which included research that was presented to the State of Texas Alliance for Recycling. He was most recently the Environmental Justice & Recruitment Manager for a US-based nonprofit initiative of the Ellen Macarthur Foundation, where he worked to embed environmental justice into a just transition to a circular economy for plastics, while addressing plastic pollution. Additionally, he served on the Resource Conservation Council for the North Central Texas Council of Governments. For his work, he has been recognized as a Circularity23 Emerging Leader, was selected as a part of an American sustainability delegation to Denmark and Sweden led by Circular San Antonio in April 2024, and was recognized as a Rising Star by Plastic News in 2024.