Online Launch: Regenerating Investment in Food and Farming - A Sustainable Table Conversation

Join us and a globe-spanning panel of transformative thinkers and doers as we launch our roadmap that has been 12 months in the making: Regenerating Investment in Food and Farming. Through over 60 interviews with leading local thinkers, doers and investors across Australia and beyond, the roadmap takes a deep dive into not only where investment needs to be directed, but how finance can, and already is, being reconfigured to enable the work of regeneration.

Facilitated by Anthony James of the RegenNarration podcast, this promises to be a conversation at depth as we explore what regeneration of finance and funding looks like in practice - the challenges, opportunities  and breakthroughs from trailblazing folk leading the way.

Our panellists include —

Esther Park: 

Esther Park is the CEO of Cienega Capital, an investment company utilizing an integrated capital approach to systemic change in the areas of soil health, regenerative agriculture, and local food systems and a key partner in #No Regrets Initiative. Prior to joining Cienega Capital, Esther founded Commons Stock, an impact-focused due diligence consulting firm. She has 20 years of experience in mission-based financial services ranging from microfinance to risk capital investments. Esther has also served as the Vice President for Strategy and Business Development at RSF Social Finance, and oversaw all lending activity from 2007-2011, which resulted in a tripling of the loan portfolio, and the development of a mezzanine debt fund. Prior to joining RSF, Esther was a senior consultant for ShoreBank Advisory Services.

Dan Miller: 

Dan Miller is the Founder and CEO of Steward, a private lender providing regenerative farmers, ranchers, fishermen, and producers with the capital they need to expand and sustain their businesses. Prior to Steward, Dan co-founded a pioneering investment crowdfunding business called Fundrise. In 2010, it was the first and largest real estate crowdfunding platform in the United States, and has since raised more than $4 billion. It's this experience, combined with a passion for agriculture, ecology, and local food that led Dan to launch Steward in 2017.

Tiarne Shutt:

Tiarne is a descendant of the Worimi people and a member of the Gathang language group. Tiarne excels at pushing boundaries, shifting mindsets, and affecting social change through storytelling and relationship building. Tiarne is at her best when she can use story and compassion to facilitate conversations focused on action.Tiarne is an Associate Director - First Australians Capital; when she's not supporting Indigenous businesses to become investment ready, she is amplifying an Indigenous First investing approach to the financial and investment markets. 

Katherine Trebeck:

Katherine is a political economist, writer and advocate for economic system change. She co-founded the Wellbeing Economy Alliance and also WEAll Scotland, its Scottish hub. She sits on a range of boards and advisory groups, such as The Democracy Collaborative, the C40 Centre for Urban Climate Policy and Economy, and the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity. She is a New Economics Senior Fellow at the ZOE Institute, a Fellow of The Leaders Institute and a Distinguished Fellow of the Schumacher Institute.