Organic Consumers and Regeneration International Team

• Rose Welch · Co-founder and International Director of the OCA
• Andre Leu · Co-International Director of RI
• Ercilia Sahores · Co-International Director of RI
• Alexis Baden-Mayer · Political Director
• Dr. Mercedes Lopez · International Director, Vía Orgánica
• Precious Phiri ·  Africa Director of RI
• Liz Welch · Newsletter Editor and Social Media Director
• Rosana Álvarez · Vía Orgánica Director
• Azucena Cabrera · Farm School Director
• Humberto Fossi · Farm Manager
• Charlotte Hughes – AgroEcology Center Farm Manager
• Becca Kehoe · Creative Content, Media, and Communications Manager
• Judy Linman · Outreach Coordinator
• Danielle Enblom · Creative Content, Media, and Communications Manager
• Kaare Melby · Field Organizer Director
• Paco Oviedo · Tech, Translations/Video
• Heather Sve · Office Administration
• SL Funk · Tech Operations
• Alejandro Vasconcelos, Billion Agave Project Coordinator

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.