Dr. Amy Cannon is the Executive Director of Beyond Benign, a nonprofit foundation focused on creating a workforce and public that is well educated in green chemistry in order to create safer materials for a thriving society. The foundation was created to generate, gather, and disseminate green chemistry information to a wide audience. Beyond Benign focuses on infusing green chemistry knowledge throughout society using K-12 curriculum development and training, community outreach, and workforce development.

Dr. Cannon holds the world's first Ph.D. in Green Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts, where her research involved the environmentally benign synthesis of photoactive materials. She received her M.S. in Chemistry from University of Massachusetts-Boston and her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH.

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Dr. Cannon has worked as an analytical chemist for the Gillette Company (now Procter and Gamble) and as an associate for Rohm and Haas. In 2006, she was appointed Assistant Professor of Green Chemistry and Director of Outreach and Community Education at the Center for Green Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, where she worked until co-founding Beyond Benign. She was awarded the Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award in Green Chemistry in 2004 for her work on titanium dioxide semiconductors and their application in dye-sensitized solar cells. Dr. Cannon is a founding editorial board member of the journal Green Chemistry: Letters and Reviews. She received the Society of Cosmetic Chemists’ Award, Best Paper Presented at the Annual Scientific Seminar of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists, in 2006.