Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin Named Keynote Speaker
EDMOND, Oklahoma—Think Regeneration is honored to announce that Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin will be giving the opening keynote talk at the 2026 Advancing Food is Medicine conference Oct. 20-21, 2026, in Edmond, Oklahoma. The conference’s theme this year, “Regenerating Our Communities,” fits the work that Regi has been organizing for decades.
In 1988, Regi began working on economic development projects with indigenous Guatemalan communities, serving as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program’s Bureau for Latin America and as an advisor to the World Council of Indigenous Peoples and was a founding member of the Fair Trade Federation in 1994. Since migrating to the US in 1992, Regi has led the creation and launch of multiple enterprises.
His first significant contribution to the United States’s social enterprise sector was in 1995 when he founded Peace Coffee, a Minnesota-based fair-trade coffee company. Regi’s social enterprise development work includes woodland owner cooperatives and a multitude of inner-city new immigrant enterprise efforts in Minnesota.