Archive for Term: South, USA

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Agnieszka Rawa

Agnieszka Rawa is a vision-driven collaborative leader with a 26-year track record delivering programs that generate value, inclusion and social good while breaking new ground to advance sustainable development.  Currently, Agnieszka leads MCC’s $21.8 million Data Collaboratives for Local...

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Laura Freeman

Founder of Laura’s Lean Beef Company and Mt. Folly Enterprises, Laura Freeman is part of the regenerative agriculture movement, wedded to the local food and local economy movement. “Starting in 1985, I was one of the first to raise...

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Karabi Acharya

Karabi Acharya is the Director of Global Ideas for US Solutions at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Global team examines promising solutions from around the world that may have exciting ramifications in the US. The team explores transformations that...

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John Fisk

John Fisk, PhD, is the Strategy and Partnerships Director of the Wallace Center at Winrock International. The Wallace Center works across the nation to foster a more regenerative and equitable food and farming system. The Center’s work focuses on...

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Justin Maxson

Justin Maxson is the Executive Director of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, a 66-year old foundation that seeks to move people and places out of poverty in the South. The Foundation supports organizations and networks that work across race, ethnic, economic...

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Mark Spalding

Mark J. Spalding, President of The Ocean Foundation is a member of the Ocean Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (USA). He is serving on the Sargasso Sea Commission. Mark is a Senior Fellow...

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Kathy Tibbits

Kathy is a Cherokee artist and semi-retired attorney.  She writes a weekly opinion editorial for the Tahlequah Daily Press.  In 2019, she co-founded a 20+ artist-member cooperative art gallery in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.  She teaches classes in creative expression.  Before that,...

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Cynthia Pansing

Cynthia Pansing is Berkshire Agricultural Ventures (BAV) Executive Director. For more than 20 years, she has brought strategic direction to nonprofit and public organizations working on food systems and sustainable agriculture in Massachusetts and elsewhere in the US for...

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Lena Hansen

Lena Hansen is the Managing Director of Rocky Mountain Institute’s China Program, based in Beijing, where she leads a team of 20 to advise and support China’s energy transition in the areas of power market reform, city carbon peaking,...

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Rachel Bagby

Rachel is an advisor and instigator of cultural change, directing her work through poetry, music, and civil empowerment. She serves as a facilitator and leadership consultant for the Rockwood Leadership Institute, and for Cultivating Women’s Leadership. Rachel helps guide...

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