Who We Are

Meet the people who make it all happen.

Our Founder

Sallie Calhoun

Sallie Calhoun
Sallie Calhoun owns and manages Paicines Ranch, along with being an impact investor, activist, and philanthropic funder in regenerative agriculture. Her work focuses on improving the health of agricultural soils and sequestering carbon in soil to mitigate climate change, while creating healthier people and planet. She is the founder of the NoRegrets Initiative, which seeks to use a wide variety of forms of capital – human, natural, investment, and philanthropic to affect change in the agricultural system.

 

Prior to becoming a rancher and farmer, Sallie spent almost 25 years as an engineer, COO, and high-tech entrepreneur. She worked in engineering and engineering management prior to joining her husband in founding Globetrotter Software, Inc. where she served as COO/CFO. They purchased the ranch after selling the company in 2001. Since then Sallie has had many adventures in ranching, grass fed beef, meat packing, holistic management, organic farming and much more.

 

She is the managing member of Cienega Capital, an impact investing firm, and the president of the Globetrotter Foundation, a family foundation. She has served on a variety of for-profit and non-profit boards, including Holistic Management International, Sierra Cascade Nursery, Agrarian Trust, and Estancia Beef. She loves to play tennis, hike, and travel.

Hear more about Sallie's story by watching her speak at the 39th Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures:

Our Team

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Alfredo De La Torre

Facilities

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Vineyard

Emily Skow

Events & Guest Experience

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Gabe Lorenzo

Facilities

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Garrett McKee

Livestock 

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Jan Holthouse

Administrations 

Jeb Rowen

Jeb Rowen

Facilities

Kelly Mulville

Vineyard

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Chef Maggie Fernandez

Culinary

If I had to be an animal on our rangeland, I'd be a cow. Contemplating ecosystem functions while chewing my cud.
If I had to be an animal on our rangeland, I'd be a cow. Contemplating ecosystem functions while chewing my cud.

Martha Skelley

Livestock

Mary Rowen
I love that my job has so many moving parts and I never know what the day will bring! On any given day, I could be giving tours, working in the freezer, picking farm fresh flowers for guests, or sitting in a pasture with the pigs! The Paicines Ranch is a dynamic, magical place and I am so grateful to work here!

Mary Rowen

Sales

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Melissa Carreno Munoz

Administrations

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Susan Popylisen

Livestock

NoRegrets Initiative

The NoRegrets team works to grow the health of agricultural lands and the communities that steward them using ecological, financial and social capital. Paicines Ranch is an integral part of the NoRegrets Initiative and a constant source of learning and inspiration to this team.

Sallie Calhoun

Sallie Calhoun

Founder, NoRegrets Initiative

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Avery C. A. Anderson

Globetrotter Foundation

Elaine Patrini

Paicines Ranch Learning Center

Esther Park

Cienega Capital

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Karla Urata

Chief Administrative Officer

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Megan Mendenhall

Communications Director