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Saskia van Bergen

Green Chemist in Southwest Region
Washington State Department of Ecology
Saskia van Bergen is a Green Chemist at the Washington State Department of Ecology in the Southwest region of Washington, where she supports product development, product safety, and environmental sustainability. Saskia became a green chemist when she realized that chemists, and not just engineers, can actually create safer and more sustainable products and solutions for some of the world's biggest environmental problems.
Learn more about Saskia at her Q & A Blog. Posted October 2020.
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"I think it’s important to tell students it's OK to not know what you want to do. If you don’t have a clear next step, you might want to find jobs that sound interesting and apply. And then you can learn what you like, or don't like, and optimize from there."
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When Saskia isn't developing safer and more sustainable products, she enjoys kayaking in the Puget Sound.