Maury Treleven

Advisor, Waste, Recycling and Compliance

Maury spent the first 15 years of her professional career in project management, packaging design, sales, marketing, outreach, and public relations in commercial organic agriculture. Among her many accomplishments, she served as chair of Gonzales, California's City Planning Commission for nearly eight years. In 2009, Maury opened a project management consulting business. She is a waste diversion and recycling expert specializing in outreach and education on multiple platforms and formats, as well as local government relations and compliance with state waste diversion and recycling laws for residential, small business, and manufacturing clients.

Maury has served the franchise waste hauler Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling (TCDR) since 2009, providing outreach, education, special events, and compliance services to the company. In 2018, she partnered TCDR with the Monterey Bay Aquarium's "Free to Learn" program, providing underserved youth and their families in her rural service area with an opportunity to visit the aquarium at no cost for entry or transportation. This program provided participants with opportunities to connect the aquarium's conservation messages with activities in their daily lives, such as eliminating the use of single-use plastics. She also worked with local school districts to recruit applicants to the aquarium's prestigious Teen Conservation Leaders internship program. Until then, these students had little to no representation in this county-wide leadership development and conservation program.

For eleven years, Maury served as a consulting project manager for Gonzales Grows Green (2009-2020), focusing on projects that enhanced the community's environmental viability, economic development, and social equity. She developed the City's community information kiosk system and weekly community email, created the "Weekend Food Security" program in partnership with Taylor Farms and local schools, and co-authored an academic curriculum that received a 2010 Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award for Children's Environmental Education Programs. During the COVID pandemic, Maury managed the City's weekly food purchasing, supporting residents experiencing food insecurity. She developed a grassroots community program to deliver locally purchased restaurant meals to Gonzales seniors, including personal messages of support and encouragement.

She has also served the City of Soledad, California, and the Soledad Police Department in various capacities, including special projects manager, events planner, website content developer, community newsletter developer and manager, and social media manager.

Maury lives on a one-acre hobby farm in Gonzales. She is an avid composter, has a brood of layer hens, a fruit orchard, a vegetable garden, and a habitat for bees, butterflies, birds, and bugs. Maury and her husband are novice winemakers on their eighth vintage of Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir and estate-grown Syrah.