Organic Consumers and Regeneration International Team
• Rose Welch · Co-founder and National Director
• Ercilia Sahores · International Director
• Andre Leu · Regeneration International Director
• Liz Welch · Newsletter Editor and Social Media Director
• Ginna Acosta · Social Media/Video
• Rosana Álvarez · Vía Orgánica Director
• Alexis Baden-Mayer · Political Director
• Azucena Cabrera · Farm School Director
• Arturo Carrillo, RI Billion Agave Project
• Mariana Escalante · Social Media, Via Orgánica
• Humberto Fossi · Farm Manager, Via Orgánica
• Dr. Juan Frias · Research/Scientist
• Scott Funkhouser · IT
• Oliver Gardiner · Video/Outreach
• Charlotte Hughes – AgroEcology Center Farm Manager
• Deb Johansen · Accountant
• Becca Kehoe · Social Media Graphics & Messaging
• Fintan Lethert · Social Media
• Judy Linman · Outreach Coordinator
• Dr. Mercedes Lopez · International Director, Vía Orgánica
• Kaare Melby · Field Organizer Director
• Pam Melby · Website, Database Management
• Stefan Meyer · AgroEcology Center Director
• Precious Phiri · Regeneration International, Africa Director
• Paco Oviedo · Tech, Translations/Video
• Heather Sve · Office Administration
• Zalman Urow · Systems Programmer
RIP Ronnie Cummins · International Director
Ronnie Cummins was co-founder and International Director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and its Mexico affiliate Via Organica.
(OCA) is a non-profit, U.S. based network of two million consumers, dedicated to safeguarding organic standards and promoting a healthy, just, and sustainable system of agriculture and commerce. The OCA’s primary strategy is to work on national and global campaigns promoting health, justice, and sustainability that integrate public education, marketplace pressure, media work, litigation, and grassroots lobbying.
Cummins was active as a writer and activist beginning in the the 1960s, with extensive experience in public education, grassroots mobilization, and marketplace pressure campaigns. Over the past two decades he served as director of US and international campaigns dealing with sustainable agriculture issues including food safety, genetic engineering, factory farming, and global warming. From 1992-98 Cummins served as a campaign director for the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C. In 1998, Cummins and Rose Welch co-founded the Organic Consumers Association, the largest network of organic consumers in the USA. In 2009 Cummins co-founded Via Organica, a network of organic consumers and farmers based in Mexico City and San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. Cummins was a frequent lecturer, both in the US and abroad as well as a regular contributor to online publications such as Organic Bytes, Common Dreams, Truthout, Huffington Post, and Nation of Change. Cummins published hundreds of articles in the alternative and mainstream press. He also authored a series of children’s books called “Children of the World,” and also “Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers” (Second Revised Edition Marlowe & Company 2004).
Read Ronnie’s obituaries, and see a collection of his works here.