Latashia Redhouse

Latashia Redhouse

Latashia Redhouse

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Latashia Redhouse is an enrolled member of the Diné Nation and was raised in southeastern Utah. She graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Journalism with an emphasis in Corporate Communications at Utah State University. She has spent years supporting organizations with marketing strategies and guidance, and is excited to serve the Native American farmer-entrepreneurs and business owners. Her passion is to inspire Indigenous professionals and offer solutions to help grow their business.

Plenary Panel

Food Production and Value-added Strategies in These Changing Times

Renard Turner

Renard Turner

Renard Turner

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Life long student of agriculture. Began in late 60’s at Armijo HS in Fairfield ,California. Took Agricultural science and engineering classes. Joined The Future Farmers of America . Participated in livestock judging competitions, Was on the 1967 California State Championship Entomolgy Team. I have served as President of The Virginia Asociation for Biological farming. Served on the USDA Minority Farmer Advisory Board, Virginia State University College of Agriculture Advisory Council. Currently serving on the board of FUTURE HARVEST and The Livestock Conservancy. Owner operator of Vanguard Ranch Ltd.,

Plenary Panel

Food Production and Value-added Strategies in These Changing Times

Lucille Contreras

Lucille Contreras

Lucille Contreras

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Lucille is the CEO and Founder of Texas Tribal Buffalo Project. This project is created to restore the traditional relationship between the Lipan Apache and our relatives the Bison. We would like to provide the indigenous communities of Texas a pathway to tribal and food sovereignty.
I am 54 years old and originally from San Antonio, Texas. My father was Joe R Contreras, Lipan Apache, my mother was Alice R Contreras, Mexica.
I currently work for the legendary Matriarch of the New Green Economy, Winona La Duke and all of her organizational as Information Technology Systems Analyst. I also work full time on our family ranch obtained by the USDA Farm Service Agency, Beginning Farmer, and Rancher loan program. We currently caretake for a small but growing herd of bison on 77 aces.
I have a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from University of Colorado, Boulder. I’m a member of Grupo Tlaloc Aztec Dancers, and a member of the Texas Bison Association.
I am currently on the board of directors for the Lipan Apache Women Defense organization, Directed by Margo Tamez.
I am excited to now live once again in the Traditional homeland of the Lipan Apache. Also, the traditional and home range of the Southern Plains Bison.

Plenary Panel

Indigenous Agriculture & Stewardship

Bluesette Campbell

Bluesette Campbell

Bluesette Campbell 

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Bluesette lives and works on the B-C Ranch, a third-generation cattle ranch near Meadow Lake, SK with her husband, Mark, and their two boys, Andrew (18) and Birch (15). They have successfully completed an intergenerational transfer with Mark’s brother, Scott, from their parents, Don and Bev Campbell. The ranch currently is a 700-head cow/calf and long-yearling operation that includes an extra-age heifer enterprise.
Originally from a sheep ranch in Montana, Bluesette now calls Saskatchewan home. She completed her first HM course from Roland Kroos in MT in 1996 but has taken several courses with Kelly Sidoryk and Don Campbell over the past 20 years. She has thoroughly enjoyed re-learning her love for agriculture through HM and its people which has led her to the decision of becoming a HM Certified Educator through Holistic Management International.
Other places that hold her passions are her no-till garden adventures, chemistry and magic in the kitchen and advocating for the rights of all individuals especially those with intellectual exceptionalities, where she spends much of her free time volunteering. Holistic Management practices can be seen as a common thread through all of her work. If you don’t find her in any of those places, she is likely out trying to make sense of the world while running.

Plenary Panel

Water & Drought

Sarah Parmar

Sarah Parmar

Sarah Parmar

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Sarah has spent over 13 years at Colorado Open Lands and leads COL’s private land conservation work. Sarah came to COL from Arizona where she completed her M.S. in Agricultural & Resource Economics, conducting research on land and wildlife issues, especially on the law of conservation easements. Her passion for Western land conservation stems from her background growing up as the fifth generation on a cattle ranch in Southeastern Arizona, where her parents and their ranching community established the Malpai Borderlands Group, a collaborative conservation organization. Sarah is past President of the Board of Directors of Re:Vision, a Denver-based food system nonprofit, she is a former board member of the Colorado Watershed Assembly, an alumnus of the Colorado Water Leaders Program, and is current Chair of the Colorado Conservation Easement Oversight Commission. In her free time, she loves hiking with her son, working on her Spanish, and trying to grow food in her backyard.

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