Meredith Katz

Meredith believes meaningful cultural change begins when better systems are made tangible, accessible, and communal. That belief shapes her work with Retrocycle, the nonprofit she co-founded to build a borrow-and-return economy across Colorado. After her time in regenerative farming communities where nothing went to waste, she began to see single-use culture as a reflection of deeper habits of convenience and disconnection. Today, she works alongside towns, businesses, events, and local governments to create the infrastructure that allows reuse to become a practical and lasting norm.

Balancing presence and surrender in her life, Meredith acts with conviction while accepting what cannot be controlled. She believes durable progress depends on collaboration, adaptability, and shared responsibility. Scientific truth grounds her thinking just as much as a sense of wonder cultivated through time spent close to the land. Farming and herbalism reshaped how she understands both people and nature, teaching her to pay attention to the unseen relationships that sustain living systems. Rather than forcing certainty onto the world, she prefers to remain curious within it.

Meredith continuously embraces new pursuits, spending her time hiking Boulder trails, painting, sewing, dancing, studying herbalism, and occasionally playing a hand-whittled flute more enthusiastically than skillfully. She is drawn to practices like cacao ceremonies that cultivate stillness, presence, and a deeper connection to both community and the natural world.

Read about Meredith's Retrocycle launch in Breckenridge