Seleyn DeYarus is the Founder of Regenerative Rising and served as the Executive Director for twelve years. She is recognized for helping to galvanize the global regenerative movement by convening thought leaders from business, civic, academia and agriculture networks for shared solutions to extractive ...

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Seleyn DeYarus

Gina Asoudegan is Vice President of Mission and Regenerative Agriculture at Applegate, the nation’s leading natural and organic meat brand. In her role, Asoudegan leads the strategy for the company’s sub-brand, The New Food Collective, and oversees the creation of consciously scaled supply chains ...

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Gina Asoudegan

Chris Bentley has a long history of successful entrepreneurship and relationship-building. He was a founding partner of Aspen Pet Products, which he and his partners built from the ground up to become the world’s largest designer and manufacturer of pet accessories. Since 1979, Chris ...

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Chris Bentley

Gregory Adams is the president of CeresNexus LLC, and Planetary Harvest, companies which are transforming the global food chain through innovative structures, systems, technology, and tools. Local and global intent and collaboration is at the heart of this ecosystem that eliminates the need for ...

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Gregory Adams

Nancy serves as the Director of Content and Insights of Regenerative Rising. Her expertise spans from developing content strategies and marketing and social media plans, to content creation, implementation and editing. Nancy has worked extensively in qualitative research from project conception to presentation, including ...

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Nancy Coulter-Parker

A nearly 30 year veteran of the natural products industry, Angela most recently served as the CEO and President of Gaia Herbs, leading and building North America’s top herbal supplement brand for over a decade. These roots have enabled her to dig deeply into ...

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Angela McElwee

A former financial and food industry analyst, Robyn O’Brien has been called “food’s Erin Brockovich” by the New York Times and Bloomberg. She triggered an allergic reaction in the food industry when she asked: “Are we allergic to food or what’s been done to ...

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Robyn O’Brien

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

Elizabeth has worked at the intersection of food, climate, and agriculture for the past two decades. She currently serves as Director of Strategic Partnerships for Mad Agriculture, a non-profit that works with farmers across the US to help them transition from conventional to organic ...

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Elizabeth Candelario

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

Esther is the CEO of Cienega Capital, a regenerative investment firm utilizing an integrated capitalapproach to systemic change in the areas of soil health, regenerative agriculture, and local food systems.Cienega Capital is also part of the #NoRegrets Initiative, a regenerative asset strategy focused on ...

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Esther Park