Ramsey McPhillips is best known for his decades-long fight to curtail the use of landfills, especially those that compromise socially disadvantaged agricultural communities. He is the founder of TAINABLE Regenerative Agricultural Laboratory and Zero Waste McMinnville which is well on its way to make McMinnville Oregon’s first Zero Waste city. His particular area of interest centers around converting municipal putrescible solid waste into compost and using it in the agricultural sector to sequester carbon into the soil. Ramsey manages his 160-year old sheep and grass seed family farm along with his two livestock guardian dogs, Vivian and Sugar. Ramsey has a B.A from Bowdoin College in Environmental Studies and is a graduate of the Grassroots Project/Sterling College, an early forerunner of the regenerative agricultural movement.

Kaki Marshall, (They/She) brings a 15-year track record of nonprofit management and 7 years of experience in public service administration with a focus on implementation of racial equity tools such as Results Based Accountability. Kaki is known in racial equity communities throughout the Pacific Northwest for successful development and implementation of programs, budgets, policies, and legislation developed in partnership with historically underserved communities.

Pat Crowley is founder and CEO of Chapul Farms, LLC, building and scaling modular insect farms. His diverse career path has had a singular focus of ensuring the food and water availability to future generations, with previous positions as a climate modeler, hydrologist, and agronomist for state and federal agencies. He is currently the Industry Advisory Board Chair for the National Science Foundation’s “Center For Environmental Sustainability Through Insect Farming.” Pat has an M.S. in Watershed Hydrology from the University of Arizona and a B.A. in Psychology from Claremont McKenna College.

Bo Downen has spent the last 15 years consensus-building across groups of western tribal sovereigns, federal and state agencies and elected officials, and electric utilities and renewable energy developers for long-term clean energy development and sustainable management of environmental projects. He is currently the Western Director of the American Clean Power Association promoting policies and programs that transform the US power grid to a low cost, reliable, renewable, power system through the use of renewable resources and supporting technologies. He served in Montana Governor Steve Bullock’s cabinet advising on environmental and sustainable power supply matters, including improving habitat and fish survival rates in rivers and tributaries of the Pacific Northwest. He holds a JD from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

Edward “Eddie” Hill is a member of FOOD LOOP NORTHWEST. Hill brings a humorous directness and cheeky sincerity to his work advancing environmental, economic, and social justice (parity) through food systems and wealth building in vulnerable communities. Hill is an innovator and driver of work at the intersections of food justice, food systems improvement, agriculture, and BIPOC food economies for Black and Brown People in the Pacific Northwest.

Hill’s background includes community pre-development and stakeholder engagement, site and neighborhood planning, long-range comprehensive planning, green infrastructure design, regenerative ecological systems, as well as project management services, program development, and academic instruction. Hill has a B.A. in Liberal Arts: Urban Studies from The Evergreen State College, Tacoma (2005), and completed his Masters of Urban Design & Planning coursework in 2013 at the University of Washington.

Kirsty Munn is a brand development expert and art director with more than two decades of experience working with global companies, start-ups, and nonprofits of every size. She has rebranded companies and architected marketing-first business plans in a variety of sectors, including sportswear, medical equipment manufacturing, entertainment, and arts. Her creative direction and design works span city-wide advertising campaigns, marketing videos, websites, product development, logos, signage, monthly publications, presentations and more. Kirsty has a B.A. from Pacific Norhwest College of Art in Photography and Printmaking.

Rodrigo Portugal is an agronomist engineer with two masters: plant genetics and sustainable forest management. Additionally, he completed training on Strategic Planning for Uncertain Times at Oxford University. Rodrigo started his career as a researcher in the corporate sector working with molecular assisted breeding, conducting trials for a range of crops.