Our Team

Dennis Norris

Director of DevelopmentDennis comes to RF with decades of large-scale national and international program operations experience as well as grant writing expertise. He has written for and managed grant-funded projects throughout the World, and has secured multi-million dollar grants from USAID, AusAID, DFID, CIDA, United Nations, European Union, World Bank, US Military, and more. Dennis recently served as the Senior Operations Advisor for the United Nations in Afghanistan. He is a national trainer on grant writing and grant management and was a fundraiser for the Mara Elephant Project in Kenya. Dennis works as a part-time Co-Executive Director, assisting RF and its local partners with grant research and writing as well as fundraising training.

Clark Miller

CFO/COOClark is a very part-time advisor, helping support RF’s organizational administration, compliance, and financial management, along with RF’s Fundraising Board development. He has a strong international organizational management background having been a C-Suite executive of a wide range of for and non-profit international organizations and companies ranging in size from start-ups to multi-million dollar global NGOs and food/ag companies, including Nestle and Con Agra.

Mary Johnson

Regenerative Farms Founder/CEOMary is a dedicated entrepreneurial non-profit founder/executive with over 15 years of experience leading impactful projects addressing global challenges. Mary has dedicated her career to driving systemic change. Her expertise lies in designing and implementing landscape scale nature base climate solutions, equitible food security and climate adaptation programs, ecosystem restoration, gender equity, indigenous rights, and resilient agricultural enterprise development.  She enjoys spending time in nature with her two children, and teaching them how to grow their own food.