Known as the “Glyphosate Girl” because of her advocacy to alert the public about the dangers of the herbicide, Kelly Ryerson closely listened to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’s Dec. 10 announcement of a pilot program that will allocate $700 million to support regenerative agriculture.

The founder of the Glyphosate Facts website and co-executive director of regenerative farming initiative American Regeneration, Ryerson, is at the center of fighting Bayer/Monsanto’s efforts to gain immunity for pesticide manufacturers from lawsuits.