Jeffrey Neal

Overview

Jeffrey served a 24 year career with the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps leading innovation and change at U.S. Navy and Marine Corps facilities worldwide. Troubled by the lack of options for diverting food scraps and the devastating impacts of current practices on our planet and people he committed to becoming a part of the solution. Jeffrey started his formal compost training in 2014 completing the Neighborhood Soil Rebuilder s Master Composting Course. Since then he has presented at the U.S. Compost Council BioCycle East Rooting DC Vermiculture conferences and as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University teaching urban composting. In addition to his honors and accomplishments for meritorious military service he is a licensed professional engineer compost facility operator and a level 3 contracting officer. Loop Closing s merits include coverage by The Washington Post and Washington DC's CBS affiliate. Loop Closing was also winner of the Best Compost contest in DC s 2016 and 2017 State Fair. Jeffrey earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford and MS from UC Berkeley.