Sam Ryerson, Board President

Sam manages ranches and grazes cattle in New Mexico and Montana with his partners in Triangle P Cattle Company and Grass Nomads LLC. He grew up in Massachusetts. He is also on the board of the Quivira Coalition.

Stephanie Cameron

Stephanie Cameron was raised in Albuquerque and earned a degree in fine arts at the University of New Mexico. She is the art director, head photographer, recipe tester, marketing guru, publisher, and owner of edible New Mexico and The Bite. Stephanie joined the board of SWGLA in 2017 because of her role in the local food community as a connector—she wants to use those connections to create education for chefs and eaters in the region on grassfed meat.

Emily Cornell

Emily grew up working on her family’s cow-calf ranch, the Cornell Ranch, southeast of Wagon Mound in the high plains of northeastern New Mexico. Though she is only second generation on this ranch, her family has a long history of agriculture on both sides. She began custom grazing yearling cattle on her own in 2016 and transitioned to running mama cows and calves of her own by 2019. Today, Emily’s focus is on improving the land while building her grassfed beef business, Sol Ranch.

Nancy Ranney

Nancy Ranney managed the Ranney Ranch from 2000 until its sale in 2021. Inspired by the Quivira Coalition, she instituted regenerative range management practices and land conservation partnerships, including as the pilot NM ranch for the Audubon Conservation Ranching Program. She developed the Ranney Ranch Grassfed/Grassfinished Beef program and is currently on the board of SWGLA and the Quivira Coalition; also a member of the New Mexico Cattle Growers and the Society for Range Management. She now lives in Corrales, NM. 

Sarah Wentzel-Fisher

Sarah has worked in food and agriculture planning for over a decade with a focus on supporting young and beginning farmers and ranchers. She was the editor of Edible Santa Fe from 2011 to 2017. From 2013 to 2015 she worked for the National Young Farmers Coalition as an organizer and is currently on the board of the Southwest Grassfed Livestock Alliance and the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union. She is a committed champion of the local food movement and of resilient and regenerative agriculture. In her free time, you can find her feeding pigs, turkeys and cows, checking the compost pile, or possibly weeding a patch of beans at Polk’s Folly Farm where she lives.

Latashia Redhouse

Bio coming soon

Cherie Montoya

Bio coming soon