Tracie Troxler is the founder and executive director of Sunshine Community Compost, a non-profit organization that offers community composting education and action programs in Sarasota and Manatee counties.

She is a Manatee county native with a career background in community-based healthcare, non-profit solar energy, and organic and regenerative agriculture. After 17 years in California, Tracie returned to her Florida roots, combining her life skills with her passion for healthy, thriving people and the planet. She hopes to bring more awareness to the interconnected benefits of composting, to the social and environmental challenges that result from normalizing concepts of “waste” and “disposability”, and the importance of honoring the intrinsic value in all of life. Her desire to advance the mission of Sunshine Community Compost is what brought her to CareerSource Suncoast, where she learned the importance of having a solid foundation in business development to grow the organization.