VOL. 29 GREEN

Contessa Archuleta is a Senior Wealth Advisor with Hightower Signature Wealth. She focuses on building enduring, multigenerational client relationships and helps individuals and families pursue goals such as retirement planning, education funding, wealth preservation, and philanthropic initiatives.

A Santa Fe native, Contessa is deeply connected to her community and is committed to sharing her knowledge of financial fundamentals through seminars and personalized guidance. She finds great fulfillment in supporting clients as they navigate major life stages and work toward their long‑term financial objectives.

Contessa holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communications and an MBA in Marketing from the University of New Mexico, as well as a FINRA Series 65 license. Outside the office, she serves on the boards of the Santa Fe Estate Planning Council and the New Mexico Farmers Marketing Association. She enjoys spending time with her husband and two children, especially while camping, hiking, traveling, and cooking.

Charles Curtin has spent three decades developing large-scale climate mitigation and place-based conservation programs in New Mexico and around the globe. He holds a Ph.D. in Zoology with an emphasis on landscape Ecology and an M.S. in Land Resources, focused on Restoration Ecology, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work focuses on co-designing or co-leading large-scale, community-based responses to complex environmental challenges, including initiatives such as the million-acre Malpai Borderlands in southwest New Mexico and adjoining Arizona, vast marine co-management programs in the Western Atlantic, and international collaboratives in Central America, East Africa, and the Middle East. Current efforts focus on building circular economies to sustain ecosystem regeneration and empower local people in New Mexico and Panama. He’s the author of several books and more than 100 articles and papers; his work has been cited more than 9,000 times. His most recent book, Place-Based Solutions: The Power of Regenerative Thinking in the Face of Crisis, from Johns Hopkins University Press, in part draws on experiences from New Mexico.

Barbara Deppman brings over 45 years of experience helping healthcare providers enhance their strategic direction and operational performance. Throughout her career, she has worked with a wide range of organizations, including academic medical centers, community hospitals, and large health systems, implementing improvements in expense management and revenue optimization. She has deep expertise in care variation, workforce management, clinical operations, physician practice management, revenue cycle, and healthcare informatics. In addition to her consulting work, Barbara has taught university-level courses in healthcare administration and has successfully led multiple organizational turnarounds across several consulting firms. Barbara retired two years ago and is now a certified guide with the Association for Nature and Forest Bathing Guides.

Ron Dimon is a strategist, educator, and facilitator who has spent more than 30 years helping leaders turn ideas into action. His work focuses on helping organizations navigate uncertainty—developing better plans, exploring alternative futures, and making smarter decisions in complex environments.

Ron has advised executives and managers across business, government, and nonprofit sectors, helping them connect strategy, data, and execution. He is particularly interested in the moment when a new idea begins to take shape—when curiosity, conversation, and creative thinking open up new possibilities. At the center of his work is a simple but powerful question: What’s possible?

At the New Mexico Innovation Hub, Ron teaches in the University of New Mexico’s Center for Responsible Entrepreneurship, and leads Spark Labs NM, a series of interactive workshops designed to help founders, leaders, and creators generate ideas, test scenarios, and move from insight to action. His approach blends structured thinking with collaborative dialogue, drawing participants into the process of discovery and problem-solving.

He is the author of two books on enterprise planning and decision-making, has been a founder or advisor to 6 startups, and continues to work with organizations seeking more effective ways to think about strategy, innovation, and growth.

Laurel Hayne-Miller is a writer and healing arts practitioner, newly rooted in Santa Fe by way of California and the Olympic Peninsula. She first came here for a contemplative residency at Upaya Zen Center, and has since chosen to stay, following her path as a healer through continued study, practice, and devotion to her craft. Her work weaves together Taoist acupuncture and visionary medicine, drawing on the vibrational wisdom of flowers, trees, and stones as guides for healing and becoming. She is also a maker of talismanic gemstone rosaries, a singer, and a lifelong dancer—at heart, a seeker devoted to joy, wonder, and love.

Amy Lin is a designer, maker and entrepreneur whose work lives at the intersection of craft, environmental responsibility, and systems thinking. Her education in sustainability began at the Solar Living Institute, where she developed a lifelong commitment to resource conservation and “archtivism,” activism in the form of architecture and design. She has taught and facilitated dozens of workshops focused on sustainable and regenerative design.

After earning a Masters in Architecture from the University of Oregon, Amy moved to Santa Fe to lead the construction of a seed bank built entirely from natural and reclaimed materials. She is the owner of Dirty Hands Design Studio, offering architectural and product design services, and the founder of InHouse CTS, a startup focused on compost toilet systems and regenerative waste practices. Through this work, Amy aims to create public programs that raise awareness around our growing challenges with food, water and unduly discarded resources.

Founder of Desert Verde Farm, Andrew Neighbour graduated with a B.A. in Zoology from the University of Oxford, England, and a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of London. He came to the United States in 1977 to pursue a postdoctoral fellowship in immunology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. On completion, he joined the faculty as an assistant professor studying autoimmune diseases.

He left academia to join E.I. Dupont’s new Life Sciences program, where he oversaw the development of an innovative medical device capable of treating several immunological diseases. After downsizing, he turned his attention to assisting researchers at major universities transfer their inventions to commercial businesses where they could be developed into viable products. He spent several years at Washington University in St. Louis and then UCLA, where he oversaw almost a billion dollars in research funding and managed the university’s intellectual property.

Andrew retired to Santa Fe in 2005 to relax and pursue creative activities, including fine art photography and oil painting. It wasn’t long before he got back into business, first with a commercial photography business, followed by a website design company. Seeking a quieter life, he took up filmmaking, and while assisting on a film about sustainable programs at Santa Fe Community College, he observed for the first time the remarkable potential of controlled environment agriculture. Learning of the dire need for fresh and nutritious food in New Mexico, he and his wife, Mary, committed themselves to building a commercial aquaponics farm in Santa Fe to produce food for underserved and vulnerable communities in Northern New Mexico.

Katrin Scholz-Barth is a competitive swimmer and bricklayer from former East Germany. Growing up with limited resources has taught her early on to improvise and invent to make things work. This design-thinking mindset shapes her to this day and turned her into a determined, practical, and hands-on environmental entrepreneur with a can-do-attitude. She works as a civil and environmental engineer.

Katrin’s heart beats at the intersection of innovation, social entrepreneurship/business and sustainability to make the world a brighter, cleaner, healthier and more resilient place. Katrin loves gardening and has combined her engineering background with climate preparedness – focusing on water-soil-food, incorporating nature-based solutions into infrastructure and experiential learning about nature and ecosystems, especially in a high desert environment.

As an environmental sustainability-minded business women she enjoys most when she leads and initiates change, inspires and empowers people, and engages in sustainability design thinking and development of inclusive and equitable communities, which she does in her personal and professional life, from Harvard University to the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar, as well as in her volunteering activities as the former President of SustainableQATAR and most recently as mayoral candidate for Las Vegas, NM.