Regenerative agriculture advocate, food systems leader, and founder working at the intersection of food, agriculture, human vitality, and the future of modern life.
Based in Los Angeles, California, Chandrima works with organizations, leaders, and initiatives across the United States and internationally.
Current Work
Ana Intl | Founder & CEO
Ana Intl is a long-term company operating at the intersection of food, agriculture, human vitality, and the future of modern life.
Through education, media, advisory, and strategic partnerships, Ana Intl explores regenerative food systems, food system transformation, leadership, and sustainable business models that support long term resilience.
Heirloom (Documentary)
Co- Director & Subject
A contemplative documentary exploring food, land, human healing, and ecological resilience through a systems based lens.
The film examines how disconnection from natural systems shapes both personal and societal health, and what becomes possible when those relationships are restored.
Strategic Partnerships & Advisory
Advising organizations across Los Angeles, CA and beyond in food, wellness, hospitality, media, and sustainable enterprise as a food systems advocate and sustainability strategist focused on organizational resilience, systems change, and long term growth.
These conditions influence not only physical health, but also clarity, resilience, creativity, leadership, and long term vitality.
Through Chandrima’s work in regenerative food systems, agriculture, hospitality, and organizational environments, she observed how fragmented systems often undermine resilience, while healthy systems create the conditions for people, organizations, and communities to thrive.
Over time, those observations expanded beyond food and health into broader questions around food systems leadership, organizational culture, regenerative leadership, resilience, and the future of modern life itself.
Today, Chandrima’s work as a regenerative agriculture advocate and food systems leader explores how healthier systems of food, agriculture, health, leadership, and enterprise can create more resilient ways of living, leading, and building.
The Through- Line
“The systems surrounding people shape what becomes possible within them.”
— Chandrima Ornvold, Journal Entry, October 4, 2021
Chandrima’s work began on farms, in kitchens, and within wellness environments.
Working across regenerative agriculture, food systems, and human health eventually led her to a larger realization:
The conditions surrounding people shape far more than individual outcomes.
The quality of our food.
The health of our soil.
The pace of modern life.
The environments we work inside.
The systems we normalize every day.