Daisy Benitez

Daisy is a change-maker passionate about safeguarding the planet and improving the lives of the people on it. She is a proud Dallas native and two-time Trojan with a B.S. and M.S. in Environmental Engineering from USC. As a Sustainable Packaging Manager for PepsiCo’s Global Sustainability Office, she focuses on establishing cross-stakeholder partnerships along the packaging value chain to accelerate the industry towards innovative, circular solutions where packaging never becomes waste.

Daisy built her sustainability career first as a researcher for Los Alamos National Laboratories, tackling the global climate change challenge through long-term carbon capture and storage. She continued strengthening her technical expertise as a process mechanical engineer for Brown and Caldwell, designing municipal wastewater treatment systems. At EY’s Climate Change & Sustainability Services practice, she connected doing what was right for the planet to what drives business value for Fortune 500 client’s sustainability strategies. Daisy also advises NGOs on environmental justice and equity issues through her consulting group B3 JEDI and sits on the Fellows Advisory Committee of the Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation.

Daisy’s mission is to create impactful change and believes everyone can contribute to making the world a better place, one action at a time.