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October 2024

Regenerative Farms is thrilled to announce our new Co-Executive Director, Partnerships & Funding.
JD “Jack” Rockefeller retired as Associate Dean, Global Health Solutions at the Geisel
School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. He was chief architect of a centralized
innovation funding and program development model for environmental health projects at
the Medical School and in cooperation with all environmental health programming at
Dartmouth College. While at Dartmouth, he also engaged with The Dartmouth Institute
(TDI) convening researchers, educators, and practitioners from multiple disciplines
across Dartmouth to work toward our mission of improving environmental health,
reducing health disparities, and creating high-performing, sustainable health
systems. While at Dartmouth he also engaged with Bloomberg Philanthropies, William
Randolph Hearst Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Marin Community
Foundation, Silicon Valley Foundation, Hewlett and Packard related foundations, and
the Rockefeller Brother’s Fund.

Jack holds degrees in Science from Arizona State University, Stanford University, and
Johns Hopkins University. He also earned his Juris Doctorate with honors from the John
F Kennedy School of Law followed by a post-graduate research fellowship in law from
Trinity College, Dublin, where he headed up the Northern Ireland Negotiation Project.
Jack worked under Kader Asmal, who directed the Law Department at Trinity, and
where he was chief counsel for Nelson Mandela, while incarcerated.

He is also a Wharton School Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a
member of Wharton’s Advanced Management Program. Environmental life supports
and economy have been his strategic interface at each step in his education, fund
development and model building globally.

Prior to his tenure at Dartmouth, Jack was Senior Advisor to the President’s office at
Johns Hopkins University. He was engaged primarily to assist with the Rising to the
Challenge Campaign, which was constructed and implemented with his assistance –
raising more than $6.0 Billion over 5 years in this role. Prior to his time at Dartmouth
and Hopkins. Throughout the past 15 years he was engaged by the Clinton Health
Access Initiative where he worked on innovative funding approaches in Environmental
Global Health.

Your support can help us continue to fight child hunger and build resilient communities worldwide. By donating to Regenerative Farms, you contribute to a future where every child has access to nutritious food and a safe, resilient and restored environment.

Thank you for being a part of our journey to end child hunger with regenerative farming and, innovative ecosystem restoration solutions. Your support is invaluable in making this vision a reality. Together, we can plant the seeds of hope and ensure a brighter future for children and their families everywhere.

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Stay tuned for more updates and exciting opportunities to get involved. Together, we can drive meaningful change!

Thank you for your unwavering support.

Sincerely,

Mary E. Johnson, Founder/CEO

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