Samuel Bamidele

Samuel Bamidele

Samuel Bamidele

Samuel Bamidele is a project soil scientist at KerTec LLC in Lubbock, TX, specializing in the design and implementation of native ecological restoration and post-construction reclamation activities. Prior to working with KerTec LLC, he served as a Soil Health Sampling Specialist with the Soil Health Institute on the U.S. Regenerative Cotton project, collaborating with growers in Alabama and Mississippi to collect soil samples and metadata in the field. He holds a B. Agric in Soil Science and Land Management from the Federal University of Agriculture, Nigeria, and an M.S. in Plant and Soil Science from the University of Delaware. Samuel is activery involved in how conserving our soils could be a powerful tool in our fight against climate change and a sustainable environment

[Re]Generation Fellow

Naya Anllo-Valdo

Naya Anllo-Valdo

Naya Anllo-Valdo

Naya Marie Anllo-Valdo (Acoma Pueblo) is a budding farmer, artist, and activist who grew up in O’ga Pogeh, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Naya received her bachelor’s degree from New York University. She is currently pursuing her MA degree from the Native American Studies program at the University of New Mexico. She focuses her studies on environmental justice, Rematriation, and food and seed sovereignty as praxes of resistance and healing. Naya is a core member of Three Sisters Collective, where she is the farm manager of Full Circle Farm. She is also the Indigenous Community Defense organizer with Pueblo Action Alliance.

[Re]Generation Fellow

Amy Beinecke

Amy Beinecke

Amy Beinecke

Amy Beinecke is partner at XKBar Ranch, under the invaluable direction of Tony Prendergast. She’s been actively engaged with learning and applying a variety of skills including irrigation, moving cattle, setting up and taking down electric fencing, keeping the freezer room tidy, preparing for farmers markets, as well as interacting with customers at the markets. Regenerative ranching has become a sincere passion and pursuit for her, as well as an extension to her connection with nature, her conscious and healthy lifestyle, and most importantly to the dire global need to expand the regenerative arena through practice and education so that future generations might thrive and carry on the regenerative way.

[Re]Generation Fellow

Donovan Glasgow

Donovan Glasgow

Donovan Glasgow

Donovan Glasgow is the Ag Site Coordinator at the Gutiérrez Hubbell Open Space in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In addition to farming, he has a professional background in the emergency food system, food security research, school meals policy, and student activism. He spends his free time cooking, biking, and doing political organizing in his community.

[Re]Generation Fellow

Monique Queen

Monique Queen

Monique Queen

Monique Queen is a Black queer/quare Earth worker with roots on the east coast (Maryland and Georgia). They have been working as a farmer and community farm educator for 5 years in Portland, OR and most recently, Albuquerque, NM. She currently works as a Resource Soecialist with Bernalillo County in ABQ. Monique is passionate about historical and present collective liberation practices, land stewardship, and food sovereignty work.

[Re]Generation Fellow