About Think Regeneration

Audrey Dorsey is an executive coach and strategist with over two decades of experience helping leaders across industries refine their leadership styles and achieve meaningful results.

Following a 15-year career in brand management at Quaker Oats and The Coca-Cola Company, she founded SkyLab, Inc. in 2000 to help senior leaders balance their commitment in driving for results with fostering the development and well-being of their teams. Although new to the conversation around regenerative agriculture, Audrey is passionate about this critical movement and recognizes the importance of diverse representation in driving impactful change. She will leverage her expertise in leadership development and strategic growth to support Think Regeneration in achieving its goals. On a personal level, Audrey is the mother of two adult children and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Ryan Erisman grew up on an innovative Illinois organic farm and left after college to for the challenge and adventure of the Marine Corps. In 2007, a decade into what was supposed to be a four-year plan, Ryan deployed to Iraq for a second time to lead 170 Marines in combat and counterinsurgency between Fallujah and Ramadi, Iraq. Ryan’s Marines engaged their minds before their weapons and treated Iraqis with respect and dignity, forging relationships with villagers -including former low-level insurgents- driving out Al Qaeda together. After the Marine Corps, Ryan came back to farming and founded Odyssey Farm in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin where he raises acorn-finished pastured pork, grass-fed beef, and small grains using regenerative practices. While farming and working for a state agency, Ryan earned a Masters degree from Edgewood College in Social Innovation and Sustainability Leadership.

 Leigh Fonseca brings over 15 years of experience as a product and analytics leader leveraging data to help businesses understand their customers. She recently embarked on a new chapter focused on regeneration when she and her husband purchased their forever home and sanctuary on 6 acres in northwest Washington. In 2022, Leigh launched Love & Greens, a microfarm growing sustainable produce, flowers, and reviving heritage fruits and berries leading with soil health and following organic principles. This complements her husband's counseling and end-of-life planning services through Drake Living & Dying Design. Together, they are cultivating a healing space on their property to give back through community and regenerative practices. Passionate about sustainability, data-driven innovation, and fostering human connections, Leigh joined the Think Regeneration board to advance their mission of promoting regenerative systems, resilience, and human thriving in harmony with nature. 

  Jenni Harris is the fifth generation of Harrises working and farming the land her family has owned in Bluffton, Georgia, since 1866. Like her father, Will Harris III, Jenni was born and raised in Bluffton. She spent her early years as her father’s shadow, attending 4-H conferences to sell cattle, riding horses, and being strapped to the front of her dad’s four-wheeler. When she was nine years old, her father dramatically changed the family’s agriculture practices, moving from the standard practices of “big ag” to more responsible and sustainable methods of raising cattle. She returned to Bluffton in 2010 and began working as the marketing manager for White Oak Pastures. She shares an office with her father, where their desks sit side by side. The farm employs eighty-five people and has its own cafeteria to feed visitors and employees. Along with cattle, there are chickens, turkeys, ducks, sheep, goats, lamb, pigs, rabbits, and an organic vegetable garden. Jenni lives in the house where her father was raised.

  Abbey Kingdon serves as the Savory Global Network Coordinator for the Savory Institute. She is also the owner and operator of UVE. UVE is a Savory Network Hub serving the West Coast and the Intermountain West, and is headquartered in Fort Bidwell, California.
Abbey spent time in South Africa living with families on holistically managed cattle farms after graduating magna cum laude from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, with a degree in animal science and a focus in communications and ethnic studies. She learned how powerful and transformational Holistic Management is in Africa and wrote my first holistic context. She attended graduate school at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she received a master’s degree in interactive journalism.
Abbey grew up on a commercial cattle ranch in Indian Valley in Plumas County, California. Her loving, large, loud family has lived in the valley for seven generations. Family is a source of joy for her. Her mission in life is to build a beautiful world for my daughter, Maezy, and son Sam, which is why she practices Holistic Management.

Kay Meyer’s deep respect for farmers is stemmed from being a 4th generation farmer’s daughter watching her grandparents, parents, and brothers be stewards of the land and growing up with her father’s principle of “leaving this place, better than we found it.” Regenerative agriculture farming creates healthy soil, healthy plants, healthy people, and healthy communities. From the outside looking in, it seems to be a no-brainier, but for farmers to adopt these practices it’s takes a significant mindset shift, a pivot from tried and true “successful” farming practices, costly new equipment, and overcoming many adoption barriers that are inherent in our current agriculture systems and policies.  

Kay’s purpose is to provide the knowledge and tools to help regenerative farmers successfully advocate and adopt these new practices, overcome barriers, and connect farmers to resources they need to achieve these goals. She calls Colton, Washington, home with her husband Ty, a conservationist, leading bio-farming cohorts, and a proud mom to her children, Jackson and Maggie.

  Kimberly Ratcliff manages Caney Creek Ranch, a diversified ranch in East Central Texas started by her parents. She joined the ranch in 2007 after leaving her job with Bloomberg as a branding specialist. To hone her skills as a rancher, she completed the TCU Ranch Management Program, which provided valuable insight into modern ranching by providing both classroom and hands on instruction in areas such as animal health, record keeping, grazing systems, and cattle management. She has successfully combined financial and ranch training to increase productivity not only at her family operation, but also with other producers in the area. Kimberly manages and helps operate the family business of more than 2,500 acres producing registered Charbray Cattle, from which bulls, replacement heifers, semen and embryos are sold national and international. The ranch also produces commercial cattle, pleasure horses and livestock feed resource. Kimberly owns Farm to Freezer Beef a locally owned, family-run business that offers fresh, wholesome beef direct from east Texas ranches. 

 Ben Trollinger is the editor in chief at Pikes Peak Publishing, a group of nonprofit newspapers in Colorado. Previously, he was an editor at Chelsea Green Publishing, an independent and 100% employee-owned publishing house based in Vermont. Before that, Ben was an editor at Chelsea Green Publishing, and editorial director for Acres U.S.A., an organic farming institution where he produced a monthly magazine, edited multiple agricultural book titles and served as the host of the Tractor Time podcast. He’s also a recovering (but awarding-winning!) newspaper editor and a father of two children. In his free time, he likes hiking up steep trails, playing guitar (but never at parties), gardening, fermenting things, and trying to identify as many plants and mushrooms as he can in the forest that surrounds his home in the Colorado Rockies. He reads widely and voraciously on everything from gardening, farming, health, and ecology to obscure religious texts, bleak Russian novels, and nonfiction works on governmental malfeasance.

 Matt Woodson is a long-time avid amateur gardener living in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Since 2009, Mr. Woodson has worked as a surgical nurse, and after working with countless patients and removing/amputating numerous gallbladders, appendixes and diabetic limbs, he has turned his focus towards addressing the root problem of metabolic disorders. As the founder of Front Yard Farms, he is using his connections in his community to help reconnect neighbors to healthy food by learning how to grow vegetables and fruits in a simple, effective way. The goal of Front Yard Farms is to provide as many people as possible the sacred experience of cultivating food. “I've determined that the root problem can be best avoided and fixed with roots,” he says.

 

  Angela Blatt manages the logistics and customer support for Think Regeneration's grant funding. Separately, Angela directs the W.K. Kellogg Foundation-funded initiative “Defining the Food System Asset Class” by exploring opportunities for the advancement of local and regional food systems. A Navy Veteran, Angela holds two degrees from The Ohio State University: a Master of Public Administration with a focus on Food Policy from the John Glenn College of Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Science from the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. angela@thinkregeneration.com

  Carl Mehlhope is the Head of Strategic Partnerships & Development. He is a triple-bottom-line advocate determined to improve the health of people and our planet. He brings the business development and partnership skills he acquired while working at P&G, Time Warner, and STACK Media to support a healthier food system. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he grew up with horses and spent a few Summers riding with a mobile vet, helping animals of all sizes. Last year, he became a University of California Master Gardener in Solano County. He can be reached at carl@thinkregeneration.com. 

Denise Nicol is the director of strategy and experience for Think Regeneration's programs. Her background in experience management, focus groups, business strategy, and conservation serve our programs to ensure we are continuously improving. Denise grew up on a multi-generational farm in Ohio, and is passionate about food and farming as a career for young people. She volunteers regularly, including starting a composting club in her local school district. You can reach her at denise@thinkregeneration.com

Ryan Slabaugh is the founder and director of Think Regeneration and former executive director of Acres U.S.A., a 51-year-old education and media company known for being the Voice of Eco-Agriculture. Ryan has more than 20 years of experience leading businesses and individuals through change. Ryan is also the chair of the board of directors for Resource Central, a diversified nonprofit in Boulder, Colorado, that supports  water management, landfill diversion and energy use reduction goals for thousands in Colorado and students around the country. You can reach him at ryan@thinkregeneration.com.

Danae Watson is the Program Support Intern curating stories told through data research and analysis with Think Regeneration. Growing up in South Bend, Indiana, she learned first-hand the impact of systemic harm such as food apartheid affecting health outcomes of marginalized communities. As a Community Psychologist, she diversifies her efforts toward promoting community wellness and preventing harm. She has a strong background in community outreach, program development, and evaluation. She works with local Chicago nonprofits Chicago Grows Food as an Evaluation Consultant as well as The Port Ministries as their Youth Engagement Coordinator.