Lisa Holmes is President and Trustee of The Martha and Hunter Grubb Foundation, a family foundation grounded in Quaker principles. A leader in trust-based philanthropy, the foundation makes multi-year general operating grants with no application or reporting requirements, built on relationships and focused at the intersection of agriculture, climate, and social justice. Holmes has worked alongside grassroots and community efforts to transform local food systems for decades, beginning as board chair of CitySeed in New Haven. She is a founding board member of GreenWave and ZeroFoodprint and serves on the steering committee of Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA). She is also Executive Producer of the documentary Fork in the Road, a Redford Center grant recipient that features Glynwood, and was an Associate Producer of the James Beard Award-winning documentary Food Chains. She is a proud member of the Pleiades Network and Rachel's Network.

Caroline Noble is the Director of The Monarch Foundation. She oversees foundation operations and impact investment portfolios, and leads place-based climate and sustainability projects, which focus on land stewardship and bioregional food systems.

Prior to her time at Monarch, Caroline worked on farms across the country studying regenerative agriculture and learning from farmers. She graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Developmental and Regenerative Biology, and served as co-captain of the women’s heavyweight crew team.

Kathleen is the President and CEO of the Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming and the Founder of Pleiades, a national constellation of women changemakers. An experienced non-profit leader, connector and network builder, she is particularly interested in empowering women and historically marginalized individuals to address our most pressing issues, especially humanity’s relationship with the natural world.

Previously, Kathleen was a Director of Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, where she developed and shaped programs to educate communities about the correlation between human health and the global environment.

Kathleen was recently awarded the Rachel Carson Award for Women in Conservation by the National Audubon Society, was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Rome  and now serves as a Co-Director of the Academy's Sustainable Food Program, founded by Alice Waters. She serves on several Boards and Advisory committees including for Senator Gillibrand, NY Commissioner of Agriculture Richard Ball, Oxfam and Planet Women. She recently provided the forward for the book Kuni: A Japanese Vision and Practice for Urban-Rural Reconnection. She holds a degree in Biology from UC Santa Cruz and a Master of Science in Science Journalism from Boston University.