Min Zheng
Waterkeeper Membership Services Manager
Since 7/1/13
Min Zheng serves as the Waterkeeper Membership Services Manager at Waterkeeper Alliance, a role she assumed in March 2024. Min joined Waterkeeper Alliance in July 2013 and is building upon her previous organizer roles of overseeing and assisting all Waterkeeper Groups and Affiliates in Asia to promote, advocate, and educate for clean water in communities around the world, she works to provide the best resources and bridging collaboration for all Waterkeeper to excel in their work locally.
As a child, Min lived near the Min River of Fujian China. Although she doesn’t have much memory of the river, she is happy she spent the majority of her years growing up near another river, the Hudson River of New York City.
Min’s passion for the environment emerged from this popular Chinese proverb, ‘du wanjuan shu, xing wanli lu’ (translated literally - to read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles). Min likes to interpret it as, ‘Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles.’ This proverb has guided and determined Min’s path academically and professionally. From the Hudson River to the Limpopo River of South Africa and back to rivers of China, Min learned from the communities that she visited near these rivers.
Starting as a teen, Min worked with local NGOs to improve the livelihood of various community groups in New York City. As she traveled, studied, and worked with communities locally and globally, she realized that water is the root cause of one's bad health and poor livelihood. This observation further solidified her direction in the field of water protection. By joining Waterkeeper Alliance, Min is able to continue her love of working with diverse groups of individuals, while improving their livelihood with clean water.
Min now lives with her husband and son in New Jersey. They love traveling near and far, and helping their son see the beauty this planet has to offer. Despite working for a water organization and living with family members who love going to beaches, Min still doesn’t know how to swim and is not a fan of the beach. She prefers the forest over the beach for some quiet time.
Min Zheng's Articles
Waterkeepers Meet in Bangkok for Regional Summit
- By: Min Zheng
- News
The long awaited Asia Summit finally took place from January 20 to 25, 2023 in the heart of bustling Bangkok, Thailand. As the first summit of the new...
Angels in the Courtroom
- By: Min Zheng
- Clean Water Defense | News
To celebrate the first anniversary of its historic legal victory against a tannery operation that had been illegally dumping its sludge in nearby farmlands,...
A Courtroom Win for Qiantang River Waterkeeper
- By: Min Zheng
- News
When China’s environmental laws changed in 2015, allowing nongovernmental organizations to sue polluters on behalf of citizens, Qiantang River Waterkeeper...