Nicole Buecker
Administrative Director
Focused on executing the passion and ideas of Danielle and her team, Nicole Buecker is the administrative and logistical support for Connect 3. She graduated from the University of Washington with a B.S. in Economics and a minor in Environmental Science.
Her undergraduate research includes the topics of fisheries management and macroeconomic impacts of recreational, public land use on local communities. Her field experience includes time in Morocco studying the agricultural supply chain and implementing farming and processing strategies for a remote community in the High Atlas Mountains. In her free time she enjoys mountain biking, fishing and hiking in the Pacific Northwest.
Nicole Buecker
Administrative Director
Focused on executing the passion and ideas of Danielle and her team, Nicole Buecker is the administrative and logistical support for Connect 3. She graduated from the University of Washington with a B.S. in Economics and a minor in Environmental Science.
Her undergraduate research includes the topics of fisheries management and macroeconomic impacts of recreational, public land use on local communities. Her field experience includes time in Morocco studying the agricultural supply chain and implementing farming and processing strategies for a remote community in the High Atlas Mountains. In her free time she enjoys mountain biking, fishing and hiking in the Pacific Northwest.
Nicole Buecker
Administrative Director
Focused on executing the passion and ideas of Danielle and her team, Nicole Buecker is the administrative and logistical support for Connect 3. She graduated from the University of Washington with a B.S. in Economics and a minor in Environmental Science.
Her undergraduate research includes the topics of fisheries management and macroeconomic impacts of recreational, public land use on local communities. Her field experience includes time in Morocco studying the agricultural supply chain and implementing farming and processing strategies for a remote community in the High Atlas Mountains. In her free time she enjoys mountain biking, fishing and hiking in the Pacific Northwest.
Education, Waste, Water.
Danielle Bogardus
Founder, President, Board Director
The journey to founding Connect 3 started in 2014, the year Danielle began her undergraduate studies at University of Washington. As a curious and dedicated student, she spent four years gaining experience working in the "forgotten" communities of the Las Piedras region of Peru. There, Danielle developed a methodology to assess the waste management and water quality within communities to be able to find tangible solutions. This work led her to expand and begin a project in Sodo, Ethiopia in the summer of 2018. It was this leap that ultimately served as a key segue into the birth of an organization solely dedicated to understanding how to assess a community’s resilience through education, waste management, and water health issues in remote communities around the globe. Thus, Connect 3 was born.
Danielle created Connect 3 out of passion to fulfill a need. After four years of research, field work and time spent in the classroom, she was unsatisfied with how waste and water were assessed in developing communities. Not only were accurate assessments needed to understand the situation, but mentalities of the localities also needed to be heard. Danielle strives to ensure that Connect 3 is accessible to communities and empowers them for lasting change. Ultimately, her goal is to rethink how we can find solutions and engage localities.
As part of her work she also co-founded Hoja Nueva, a non-profit experimental research organization in Las Piedras Peru, and serves as the CIO at Aveterra, who provides composting solutions for communities.