Jill Tepe
Continuing Education Coordinator, Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety| University of Washington
Jill Stoddard Tepe (pronounced TEEP) is the Continuing Education Coordinator for the Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety at the University of Washington, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS). Jill has 13 years of global health, protein chemistry, and biomolecular screening laboratory experience at the University of Washington and Immunex Corporation. She developed a passion for sustainable business development and education outreach launched at Mt. Baker Bio and continued at the Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center. Currently, Jill builds professional development courses in occupational health & safety with a focus on green chemistry at the University of Washington serving the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Jill is the Co-Founder of the Green Lab Alliance featuring laboratory sustainability best practice consulting and education outreach for the life science sector with support from King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks. She served a consultant for a UW Green Seed Fund project to improve DEOHS lab sustainability metrics, assessment, and best practice implementation. Jill is also a board member of the Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center and serves on the steering committee of the NW Health, Environmental and Laboratory Professionals Group.