Rose Marcario is President and CEO of Patagonia, she joined in 2008 as COO and CFO.  Since her taking the helm, the company has quadrupled sales and profits.  Rose created the company’s first in-house venture fund, oversaw the development and creation of Patagonia Provisions, ...

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Rose Marcario

Dr. Helen Crowley joined Kering in November 2011 and is the Head of Sustainable Sourcing Innovation. Prior to Kering, Helen was
 Associate Director at the Wildlife Conservation Society for eleven years.
 She has a background in field-based conservation and development
 projects particularly in Africa ...

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Dr. Helen Crowley

Edouard Rollet, Co-Founder, Alter Eco Americas, Inc., is a seasoned social entrepreneur, brand builder, leader and innovator, Rollet has brought more than 20 years of experience to Alter Eco Americas Inc., the company he co-founded in 2004. With a vision to change the world ...

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Edouard Rollet

Natalie Reitman-White is the Vice President of Organizational Vitality and Trade Advocacy at Organically Grown Company, one of the largest independent distributors of organic produce in the country.   Fast Company magazine named her, “a leading executive and change-maker in efforts to make food supply ...

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Natalie Reitman-White

Winona LaDuke is Anishinaabe, a farmer, writer, and economist who has worked for decades on the restoration of Indigenous seed and food varieties as well as the caretaking of land through Indigenous agriculture.  Most recently, working with Anishinaabe Agriculture and Winona's Hemp, she's been working with Fiber ...

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Winona LaDuke

Victor has been at the forefront of innovation, investment and sustainability for over 20 years. As Co-Founder of S2G Ventures he was a principal force in developing the S2G mission, culture, strategy and team. Through his work at S2G, he pioneered system investing as ...

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Victor Friedberg

Ethan is a startup growth expert who is focused on turning ideas into reality. He is a Managing Partner & Co-Founder at Propagate Ventures, an agroforestry project development & farm management company focused on bridging the capital and operational needs for the integration of ...

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Ethan Steinberg

An award-winning writer and seasoned natural products industry veteran—with experience in food and supplement retail, lifestyle mail order and textiles product development—Bill Giebler is the managing editor of Nutrition Business Journal and a New Hope Network senior editor frequently covering food and agriculture trends ...

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Bill Giebler

Eric Thalken lives in the practical center of human energy and skill, machines, money and biological diversity, with the mission to produce food with the highest ecological benefit (not least impact).Eric manages a system of cattle and crops intertwined on 2,250 acres of Southeast ...

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Eric Thalken

Amy serves in the new role of Vice President, Social Consciousness for women’s clothing designer EILEEN FISHER.  In this capacity, she guides the company toward greater alignment with its Benefit / B Corporation status and Quadruple Bottom Line framework.   Amy collaborates internally and externally ...

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Amy Hall

Emma is a wearer of many hats: graphic facilitator, community organizer, and problem solver. As a graphic facilitator or “scribe” she transforms meetings and conferences through her art and deep listening—further encouraging the collective intelligence of groups to emerge. As a community organizer and ...

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Emma Ruffin

Katina is the Sustainability Director at Loomstate, an ethical and sustainable private label uniform company with long roots in traceable organic cotton.  Loomstate prides itself on creating clothing with responsible materials and the best intentions by developing win-win approaches to clothing supply chain systems. ...

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Katina Boutis

Charles Massy gained a Bachelor of Science at Australian National University (ANU) in 1976 before going farming for 35 years and developing the prominent Merino sheep stud “Severn Park”. Concern at ongoing land degradation and humanity’s sustainability challenge led him to return to ANU ...

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Charles Massy

A lifelong ocean advocate, Vicki earned a Master’s degree in marine policy from Yale University. Working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), she co-wrote the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Designation documents and served as NOAA liaison to the California Sanctuary sites. For ...

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Vicki Goldstein

Kenneth Lee is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Lotus Foods, one of the most innovative, organic and fair trade specialty rice brands in the country. Its products have received many awards from the Specialty Food Association and Natural Products trade groups. Ken has over 20 years ...

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Kenneth Lee

Megan Weidner joined Bunge North America in 2015 as the vice president, corporate responsibility and sustainability. Megan is active in the industry with organizations such as Field to Market and MANRRS (Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences) and is on the Board of Directors for Agriculture ...

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Megan Weidner

Jenni Harris, Will's middle daughter, is the fifth generation of the Harris family to tend cattle at White Oak Pastures. After living on the farm her entire life, Jenni went to Valdosta State University and earned a degree in Business Marketing, graduating in 2009. ...

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Jenni Harris

Jeff Moyer; Executive Director, Rodale Institute: Jeff Moyer is a world-renowned authority in regenerative organic agriculture. His expertise includes organic crop production systems with a focus on weed management, cover crops, crop rotations, equipment modification and use, and facilities design. Jeff is perhaps most ...

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Jeff Moyer

Paul Rice is Founder and CEO of Fair Trade USA, the internationally-acclaimed social enterprise and leading certifier of Fair Trade products in North America. He launched the award-winning nonprofit organization in 1998 after spending 11 years organizing farmers in the highlands of Nicaragua. There, ...

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Paul Rice

Alan directs government affairs and food and agriculture policy for Natural Grocers, a health food store chain founded in 1955 that operates over 150 stores in 19 states. At the federal and state level, Alan engages with lawmakers and regulators on food, agriculture, nutrition, rural ...

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Alan Lewis

Alex co-founded and serves as chief executive officer of Thrive Natural Care. Thrive designs and sells high performance skincare, powered by regenerative plants. Since 2013, Thrive’s team of American and Costa Rican entrepreneurs, farmers and scientists have produced new-to-market botanicals for the company’s products ...

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Alex McIntosh

Jennifer Jensen, Manager of Sustainable Practices and Environmental Analytics, oversees Sustainable Environment Consultants'sustainability risk management platform, EcoPractices®. In her role, she manages and coordinates client projects and everyday operations, including collecting, storing, analyzing data, and generating environmental impact values.She is a passionate advocate for ...

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Jennifer Jensen

Founder and CEO Maria Uspenski is the innovative force behind our Steepware® designs. Drawing on her background as an MIT mechanical engineer, she is listed on four U.S. patents for Steepware® inventions. As the inspiration behind our 10% Pledge to cancer and community wellness ...

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Maria Uspenski

Following Ryan's service in the United States Army, he and his wife, Kat, decided to build a business that truly reflected what the American Dream meant to them. After the birth of their first child, they founded Huston Textile Co. inside their home garage ...

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Ryan Huston

Jeanne Wilson is the Associate Director of Brand Marketing at Kashi, a company founded on the belief that food should do more.  Food should go beyond taste and nutrition to do more to nourish communities and the planet. For over 14 years, Jeanne has ...

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Jeanne Wilson

Philip Taylor, Ph.D. is executive director of Mad Agriculture, which he co-founded with his life partner, Nicole Brinks, to create a culture that loves and restores our relationship to the land, sea and one another. Our work spans the story, community and practice of ...

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Philip Taylor

Jessica leads Education for Kiss the Ground. She is a Mother and a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) who’s interest in health began at a young age when she witnessed the ill effects poor eating habits had on those she loved most. She has spent ...

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Jessica Handy

Diana Donlon is Executive Director of Soil Centric an organization she co-founded to connect people to climate solutions grounded in regenerative agriculture and ecosystem restoration. An early soil and climate advocate, Diana has a history of creating awareness about the importance of healthy soil ...

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Diana Donlon

Ethan Soloviev is a farmer and Executive Vice President of Research at HowGood.com, where he manages the world’s largest product sustainability database. His work with Fortune 100 retail and CPG companies combines on-the-ground agricultural expertise with sustainability-driven market insights. Ethan farms apples and sheep ...

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Ethan Soloviev

Calla Rose Ostrander is a Climate Change Innovations Advisor to individuals and organizations dedicated to stabilizing Earth’s climate. From 2008-2016 she was the Climate Change Projects Manager for the City & County of San Francisco where she created and managed the City’s internal agency ...

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Calla Rose Ostrander

Rebecca Burgess is the Executive Director of Fibershed, and Chair of the Board for Carbon Cycle Institute. She has over a decade of  experience at the intersection of restoration ecology and fiber systems, and over two decades of experience as a trained weaver and natural dyer. ...

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Rebecca Burgess

Galit Laibow is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Foodstirs, where she’s taken a no-holds-barred approach to reinventing the incredibly stagnant billion-dollar baking mix industry and upgrading the pantry one organic baking mix at a time. Her tenacious approach and business acumen have ...

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Galit Laibow

As Patagonia’s VP of Social and Environmental Responsibility, Cara leads a team of professionals that set strategy and implement Patagonia's sustainability initiatives. Responsibilities include guiding Patagonia's social and environmental supply chain programs that protect people and our planet (factories, mills, farms), ensuring animal welfare, ...

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Cara Chacon

Alison is the Director of Social Impact & Sustainability at Gaia Herbs, a leading US herbal products brand whose purpose is to connect people, plants, and planet to create healing. Alison leads the company’s sustainability strategy and programs, ensuring Gaia’s business operations create positive ...

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Alison Czeczuga

Carlotta Mast is the senior vice president of content and insights for Informa’s Global Health & Nutrition Network, which includes the New Hope Network. Carlotta is also the board president of Naturally Boulder, a 1,200-member trade group with the mission of nurturing community, leadership ...

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Carlotta Mast

Erin Stokes, ND is the Medical Director at MegaFood, and a registered Naturopathic Doctor in the state of Colorado. Dr. Erin Stokes received her Naturopathic Doctor degree from Bastyr University in 2001. Shortly afterwards she began to pursue her passion for educating others by ...

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Erin Stokes, ND

Hammad Atassi is CEO of the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), the leading policy advocacy group representing the interests of responsible businesses nationwide. He leads the organization in building a business-focused movement for policy changes to achieve a sustainable economy, based on the triple-bottom-line ...

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Hammad Atassi

The Bare Ranch in Surprise Valley, California is the headquarters for the Rambouillet sheep operation and Lani’s Lana~Fine Rambouillet Wool. Located in the High Desert area of Great Basin in Northwest Nevada and Northeast California, the ebb and flow of sun-to-sun work make Lani ...

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Lani Estill

Scott is the Director of Business Development at the Sustainable Apparel Coalition where he is focused upon growing membership and Higg Index adoption.  Scott represents the SAC at key industry events across the Americas and Asia where he educates wide-ranging industry stakeholders on the ...

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Scott Miller

Erin Heitkamp is the Senior Vice President of Impact at Pipeline Foods. She has worked in the fields of corporate environmental management and sustainability for more than 20 years, and has been part of the Pipeline Foods leadership team since its inception in 2017. ...

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Erin Heitkamp

Marci coined the term and pioneered the market for ECOfashion, and is an internationally-recognized ECOlifestyle entrepreneur, educator and expert. Founder of Under the Canopy, Producer of THREAD|Driving Fashion Forward, and Co-Founder of Good Catch and The Institute for Integrative Nutrition.  Marci has been instrumental ...

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Marci Zaroff

Mr. Retzloff is a pioneer in the organic and natural foods industry with a 49-year career starting and managing successful companies. He is co-founder and former chairman and CEO of Alfalfa’s Markets, Boulder-based natural foods stores. He also co-founded Aurora Organic Dairy in 2003, and ...

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Mark A. Retzloff

Jenna Fitch is the Community & Conference Content Director at New Hope Network, part of a growing Global Health & Nutrition Network at Informa. In this role she’s passionate about serving and giving a voice to all stakeholders in the natural and organic products industry. ...

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Jenna Fitch

Mark Stavro is senior director of marketing for Bunge’s North American operations. Bunge North America is a leading innovative food company providing oil and grain ingredient solutions to food producers, restaurants, bakeries and the retail market. In his current role, Mark oversees all marketing ...

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Mark Stavro

Adriane Pilcher is Brand Director at The Jackfruit Company, a mission-led brand dedicated to bringing sustainably sourced jackfruit to the US Market. With over 10-years of experience working with entrepreneurs, CPG companies and founding a communications firm, Adriane has proven success in authentic storytelling, ...

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Adriane Pilcher

Lara has nearly twenty years of consumer packaged goods marketing, sales, and general management experience with an emphasis on bringing healthy product innovations to the natural and mass market. For the past five years, she has provided strategic sales, marketing and leadership consulting to ...

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Lara Dickinson

Chris Kerston has dedicated his life to helping connect innovative ranchers and farmers with progressive brands in ways that create true synergistic value for both sides. Chris managed ranches and farms full time for nearly 15 years before joining the Savory Institute. In that ...

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Chris Kerston

Matthew Reynolds is acting President and Co-Founder of INDIGENOUS Organic + Fair Trade Fashion, a pioneer and leader in the areas of sustainable supply chain, fair trade, human rights, artisan community development, organic products, and the movement toward regenerative and sustainable solutions. Matthew’s path ...

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Matthew Reynolds

Ellen Johnson began her career in product development where she quickly found her passion for sustainability after being exposed to the harsh reality of how dirty the apparel industry is. Now the Social Responsibility and Traceability Specialist at prAna Living, Ellen is making waves ...

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Ellen Johnson

Jim is CEO and co-founder of Other Half Processing SBC, producer of identity-preserved byproducts from the “other half” of regenerative, organic and other more sustainably raised livestock. OHP’s mission, as a Minnesota Specific Benefit Corporation (SBC), is to create high value and high quality ...

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Jim Kleinschmit

Janice Hall is President, Natural Network International since 1991 -- a business development, marketing and trends forecasting company, specializing in natural health, organic, environment and sustainability policy, issues and products.  Additional expertise includes environmental sciences, climate change and supply chain issues, as well as ...

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Janice Hall

Elena Lécué is a mission-driven executive in the organic and natural products and consumer packaged goods industries.  As EVP of Sales and Marketing at Gaia Herbs, she leads the growth for the #1 herbal supplements brand in the United States. Gaia Herbs is a ...

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Elena Lécué

Amy Keller, CCN, is the Director of Education and Training for ORGANIC INDIA. With a background in nutrition science and social work (specializing in Gerontology), she pursues her passion for educating others and promoting conscious, heart-centered leadership. After years of running her private nutrition ...

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Amy Keller

Carol is the Senior Manager of Global Sustainability at The North Face, where her work spans all aspects of TNF’s environmental footprint, from retail waste to regeneratively-grown raw materials. She oversees the brand’s sustainability initiatives and helps teams across the brand action on The ...

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Carol Shu

Deanna Bratter is the Senior Director of Public Benefit and Sustainable Development for Danone North America, the largest public benefit corporation and the largest Certified B Corporation in the world. Deanna drives the company sustainability strategy and programs to support the interconnectivity between the health ...

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Deanna Bratter

At the Epicenter is on a mission to educate, inspire and mobilize entrepreneurs and business leaders by cultivating action-orientated community among leaders in natural, organic and sustainable business. By working with influential underwriters that are focusing resources on impacts for the benefit of our ...

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Launching a Thoughtful Renewal – Regenerative Earth Summit

Dave Haynes is co-founder of rePlant Capital, a new impact investment group focusing on soil health and regenerative transition at the farm level. He served as Managing Director for Greenmont Capital Partners II since its inception in 2008.  He also serves on the board ...

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Dave Haynes

By Timothy LaSalle, Ph.D., Co-founder, Regenerative Agriculture Initiative, Chico State and Speaker at the Regenerative Earth Summit: Food + Climate + Culture, Nov. 6-7, 2017 Regenerative agriculture is an approach to food and farming systems that works with nature’s rhythms in ways to feed ...

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What is Regenerative Agriculture?

By Elizabeth Candelario, Managing Director, Demeter USA and Speaker at Regenerative Earth Summit: Food + Climate + Culture, Nov. 6-7, 2017 Why we must change the way we farm to change the projectory of climate change. “A truly regenerative agriculture is one in which ...

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Biodynamic Agriculture, Regenerative Farming and Climate Change

By Melody Meyer (Posted with permission from OrganicMattersblog.com ) It was a rollicking time for organic in D.C. last week. The Senate AG Committee held a hearing on global & local markets, specialty crops, and organics as they relate to the next Farm Bill. ...

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The Issues Riddling Organic Will Set the Stage for the 2018 Farm Bill

Hazel Henderson D.Sc.Hon., FRSA, is the founder of Ethical Markets Media LLC and the creator and co-executive Producer of its TV series. She is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on  sustainable development, and author of The Axiom and ...

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Hazel Henderson

Considered a leading brand-building architect, Larry Kopald spent over twenty years at some of the world's leading advertising agencies overseeing advertising fro companies ranging from American Express and McDonalds to Honda and Pepsico. Also a committed environmentalist (Director of Greenpeace, Oceana, 1% For The ...

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Larry Kopald

Aria McLauchlan is the Co-Founder & Executive Director of Land Core, a non-profit organization advancing soil health policies and programs that create value for farmers, businesses and communities. In her role at Land Core, she has shepherded the organization’s rise to the center of ...

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Aria McLauchlan

For thirty years, Alisa Gravitz has led Green America, the national green economy organization. Green America develops marketplace solutions to social and environmental problems with a key focus on tackling climate change, building fair trading systems, stopping corporate abuse, and growing the green economy. ...

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Alisa Gravitz

Elizabeth has worked at the intersection of food, climate, and agriculture for the past fifteen years. She is Chief Strategy Officer for Mad Agriculture, a non-profit that works with farmers as agents of change to move from extractive, conventional agriculture to regenerative, organic farming. ...

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Elizabeth Candelario

As head of corporate development, Phil reports to Patagonia’s CEO and plays a significant role in investments, innovation, strategy, and new business ventures.  Phil oversees Patagonia’s Tin Shed Ventures, which invests in environmentally and socially responsible startup companies, and Patagonia’s Worn Wear business.  For ...

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Phil Graves

Tina Owens is the Senior Director of Food & Agriculture Impact for Danone North America, the largest public benefit corporation and the largest Certified B Corporation in the world. Tina leads the charge for embedding regenerative agriculture practices, farmer resiliency, regenerative financing and industry ...

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Tina Owens

A native Argentinean, born and raised in Buenos Aires, Daniela is an agronomist by profession and holds a MS in Natural Resource Management and Economics. With over 25 years of international experience in ranching, Holistic Management, and collaborative ecosystem restoration programs, Daniela co founded ...

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Daniela Ibarra-Howell

Katherine DiMatteo is the Executive Director of the Sustainable Food Trade Association as of November 2013. She has worked in a variety of capacities within the organic industry since 1990. In addition, DiMatteo continues as a managing partner at Wolf, DiMatteo + Associates,  a ...

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Katherine DiMatteo

Fleishman has created and grown some of the world's largest and most successful brands during his 20-year career - launching 1,500+ items across 17 food and beverage categories into 12 countries - focusing primarily on the “natural green space.”In 2016, Fleishman co-founded Foodstirs Modern ...

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Greg Fleishman

Katie is the Co-Founder and Chief of EPIC Provisions, a company specializing in creating nutrient dense meat based superfoods. EPIC is the first consumer packaged goods company to successfully scale a “nose to tail” approach to optimizing the use of the whole animal. The ...

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Katie Forrest

Woody Tasch is the Founder and Chairman of the Slow Money Institute and author of Soil: Notes Towards the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital, Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered (Chelsea Green). Since 2010, dozens of local ...

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Woody Tasch

Since 2007 Dr. Timothy J. LaSalle has championed his science-based hope for a regenerative food system that will mitigate climate change by carbon sequestration in place of soil carbon loss.LaSalle has served as the first CEO of Rodale Institute; Executive Director of the Northwest ...

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Timothy LaSalle, Ph.D.

Rebecca Hamilton is an owner and the co-CEO at Badger in Gilsum, New Hampshire. She oversees new product innovation from concept to market as well as Badger's sustainability initiatives, including a focus on regenerative agriculture and the adoption of a new purchasing philosophy to ...

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Rebecca Hamilton

Steve Farrell is the Worldwide Executive Director for Humanity's Team, a global grassroots spiritual movement focused on awakening and embodying Oneness so humanity may enjoy a sustainable world of peace, harmony and happiness.  Humanity’s Team presently has over 665,000 friends in over 150 countries.Humanity’s Team projects ...

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Steve Farrell

Lauren Ivison joined Ridgeline Ventures in 2016 with broad transactional and advisory experience across finance, law, and management consulting. Prior to joining Ridgeline, Lauren spent five years in boutique investment banking where she advised emerging growth companies across a variety of industries on capital ...

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Lauren Ivison

In 2006, Marc Ian Barasch founded one of the pioneering organizations of the global regeneration movement, the Green World Campaign, based on an ethos of “green compassion” that integrates ecological health, social wellbeing, and universal spiritual values. The GWC has planted millions of trees ...

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Marc Ian Barasch

Finian Makepeace is the co-founder of Kiss the Ground and a renowned presenter, media creator, and thought leader in the field of regenerative agriculture and soil health. His dedication to Kiss the Ground’s mission of “inspiring participation in global regeneration, starting with soil”, has ...

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Finian Makepeace

Nova Sayers is passionate about building integrity, health and sustainability in our food & agriculture system - in a way that creates value for brands, suppliers, and consumers.  Nova represents NSF International, a global not-for-profit public health organization that helps organizations use tools like ...

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Nova Sayers

As former founder and CEO of Eco-Products, Steve has been instrumental in increasing awareness of environmental issues and sustainability for the past 25 years. Steve is originally from Boulder, Colorado and received a Bachelor’s of Economics from Kansas University.Steve is a committed conservationist and ...

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Steve Savage

Steve Hughes is a pioneer in the natural and organic food and beverage industry with over 35 years of experience. Steve co-founded Sunrise Strategic Partners in 2016 to bring growth capital and expertise to emerging brands in the healthy, active and sustainable living space. ...

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Steve Hughes

Tracy Miedema is Vice-President of Innovation & Brand Development at Presence. In this role she is responsible for optimizing the growth and profitability of brands in the company’s investment portfolio. Before joining the Presence team in 2014, Tracy served as Director of Product Innovation ...

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Tracy Miedema

Keith Paustian is University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory.  A major focus of his work involves modeling, field measurement and development of assessment tools for ...

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Keith Paustian, Ph.D.

Walt Freese has served as the CEO, or President of three iconic businesses that have each played an important role in transforming our Food System:  Celestial Seasonings, Ben & Jerry’s and Stonyfield Farm. He became CEO of Teton Waters Ranch this year, based on ...

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Walt Freese

MILA POPOVICH, Ph.D., is the founder of EVOLvED Leadership – educational program, practice and community for transformational leadership on the scale of personal development and excellence, organization building and institutional innovation, to planetary path-finding. As an independent academic, she is a humanities expert, systems ...

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Mila Popovich, Ph.D.

Mark Shepard is the CEO of Forest Agriculture Enterprises LLC and founder of Restoration Agriculture Development. He runs New Forest Farm, the 106-acre perennial agricultural savanna considered by many to be one of the most ambitious sustainable agriculture projects in the United States.New Forest ...

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Mark Shepard

Dan Kittredge has been an organic farmer for more than 30 years, and is the founder and executive director of the Bionutrient Food Association (BFA).  The BFA is an 8 year old non-profit educational organization whose mission is to "increase quality in the food ...

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Dan Kittredge

Scott Marcus is the VP Marketing for Vital Farms, the largest producer of pasture-raised eggs. He has spent the past 20 years building brands and businesses, with a passion for marketing real food. Scott’s focus at Vital Farms, as well as past brands including ...

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Scott Marcus

Kyle Garner is the CEO of Organic India USA.  Organic India is a leading mission-driven manufacturer of herb-based wellness teas and functional supplements based on the principles of Ayurvedic medicine.  Kyle joined Organic India USA in April 2015 following 3 years as CEO of ...

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Kyle Garner

An interest in community development and a passion for travel led Brook Eddy to India in 2002 to research a movement based on the principles of Bhakti, or devotion through social action. While there, she fell in love with fiery masala chai and it ...

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Brook Eddy

As a child, Mark Guttridge lived a typical country kid’s life on his grandmother’s 6 acres of land off of Hover Road. He played in the creeks and ditches, raised sheep, chickens, rabbits and vegetables for 4H to show at the Boulder County Fair ...

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Mark Guttridge

Les is currently Director of Constructive Capital at Dr. Bronner’s. He oversees business development activities for the company, which includes impact investing, philanthropy, and commercial support of supply chain projects around the world. He currently sits on the boards of Serendi Coco Samoa Ltd., ...

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Les Szabo

Richard is the Vice President for Policy and co-founder of the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), which represents over 225,000 companies. He spends time on Capitol Hill, the White House, federal regulatory agencies and state legislatures advocating for policy change on issues ranging from ...

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Richard Eidlin

Eric is a strategic marketing and market research professional who brings business management experience and consumer behavior perspectives to his work. Specializing in helping businesses develop strategy and identify and prioritize opportunities; Eric is sought after as a speaker at industry events and for ...

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Eric Pierce

Sarah Harrison was a designer of brands and software for a variety of tech startups before discovering a love for teaching and facilitating. As co-founder of The Determined, she coaches teams on efficient strategies to help their work get heard and make a positive ...

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Sarah Harrison

Marc O’Brien is a design strategist, designer, and creative facilitator, who has been working with people who give a damn since 2009. He is the co-founder of The Determined, a creative studio for a climate-resilient world. They help organizations addressing our climate crisis stand ...

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Marc O’Brien

Gregory’s passion for creating healthy relationships through trade and agriculture has lead him on a journey to explore all phases of the value adding process from farming and agriculture through processing and manufacture to marketing to the end customer. Balancing expertise in regenerative agriculture ...

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Gregory Landua

Lisa Stokke has been a lifetime advocate for healthy food systems and through this commitment co-founded Food Democracy Now!, a nonprofit organization of 750,000 members where for 9 years she advocated and brought awareness to the importance of organic and regenerative agriculture through progressive ...

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Lisa Stokke

Ralph Freelink is a transformational coach, healer and teacher from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has a passion for assisting leaders in maxing out their potential for consciousness. He knows from experience the ins and outs of leadership and what it means to serve a tribe. Ralph has been an ...

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Ralph Freelink

Mark’s 35-year career spans the vanguard of the organic movement including: the early UCSantaCruz Agroecology Program, co-founding the Molino Creek Farming Collective, establishing the CCOF statewide office,  instigating the U.S.Organic Foods Production Act and midwifing the California Organic Foods Production Act, co-designing the Organic ...

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Mark Lipson