Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, founder of the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance, is cofounder and CEO of Tree-Range® Farms, which raises slow-growth chickens. He was awarded a lifetime Ashoka Fellowship in 2018 for his work in regenerative poultry systems.
Regi began working on economic development projects with Indigenous Guatemalan communities in 1988. He served as a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme’s Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, and as an advisor to the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. Before coming to the US in 1992, Regi worked with artisan communities across the highlands of Guatemala, and built fair trade networks in Europe, the US, and Canada.
The author of In the Shadow of Green Man: My Journey from Poverty and Hunger to Food Security and Hope, Regi received his agronomy degree from the Escuela Nacional Central de Agricultura and graduated from Augsburg University in Minneapolis with a major in international business administration and a minor in communications.