A Small Organization with a Big Heart

Our Team

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Greg & Patty Closser

Greg and Patty Closser founded A Great Day Farm in 2013 to create a welcoming, accessible environment for individuals with significant support needs. Inspired by their experiences raising their family, they designed the farm so that people with disabilities have the freedom & autonomy to explore, play and relax. You can find Greg and Patty most days working on projects to enhance the grounds and create a more welcoming environment for all.

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Clara Devey

From Interlochen, Michigan, Clara Devey is an undergraduate student at Carleton College with plans to major in Sociology with a minor in Statistics. Her own disabilities and chronic health issues sparked a passion for disability advocacy. As a result, she spends most of her time working and volunteering at Laura Baker Services Association and presenting at elementary and high schools about Service Dogs, mental health, accessibility, and disabilities. In her spare time, she reads fantasy books, writes music, plays board games with friends, and snuggles her Service Dog.

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Randy Lia

Randy is a seasoned global executive with over 35 years of leadership experience across engineering, sales, product management, supply chain, procurement, digital transformation, and commercial strategy.  Before retiring from Ecolab he served as Vice President of Supply Chain at Ecolab, leading the company’s global Digital Supplier Experience.

Throughout his 21+ year tenure at Ecolab, Randy has held a diverse range of senior leadership roles including Director of Global Procurement Operations, where he oversaw systems integrations, legal compliance, master data governance, and global sourcing strategy. He led the global procurement workstream for the successful spin-off of ChampionX and played a pivotal role in the integration of Ecolab’s $5B merger with Nalco.

Earlier in his career, he built a strong foundation in engineering, sales, product management, and marketing across multiple industrial sectors. His cross-functional background combines deep technical insight with commercial acumen, making him a strategic advisor on innovation, ESG, supplier diversity, and enterprise risk.

Randy brings to the board broad functional expertise and the ability to navigate complex situations, driving growth, problem solving, and ultimately delivering results.

He and his wife share a strong passion for philanthropy, giving, and service, and are especially devoted to organizations that provide hope and opportunity to children in need, children with medical challenges, vulnerable youth, and people of all ages living with disabilities.

Rob Morrow

Rob Morrow has a lifetime commitment to serving others. As a child and young adult, he was a member of VOSH Minnesota, providing free eye care in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Togo, Tanzania, and India. As a photography and fine arts graduate of Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, Rob taught painting and illustration to adults with disabilities at the First Street Gallery and Art Center in Claremont, part of the Tierra del Sol Foundation. Here he also taught photography to a student who was blind and cognitively challenged. The collective photos this student produced introduced a novel method of communication that removed barriers between the artist’s three separate worlds: group home (former lifetime home), new apartment (mandated by law), and day programming at First Street.

For better than the last decade, Rob has donated his professional services to organizations that support people with cognitive, sensory, and mobility challenges in Rice County, including, Laura Baker Services Association, Northfield Arts Guild, Minnesota School for the Blind, and the Northfield Retirement Community. His wife, Dr. Annette Nierobisz, is a professor of sociology and the incoming director of the Perlman Learning and Teaching Center at Carleton College. They live a simple life of big dogs, foosball, and ping pong. Rob’s older brother Barry wrote the screenplays for Bill, Bill on His Own, and Rainman; all three movies featured a lead character with cognitive challenges.

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Haley Kimmet Teopaco

Haley has spent her career championing autonomy and inclusion for people with disabilities. She has built family support programs at TASH, led youth disability rights workshops with Mobility International USA, supported students, faculty, and staff at the University of Minnesota, and advanced accessibility strategy at Salesforce—always centering access, equity, and community in her work.

Now as Executive Director of the farm, Haley is focused on growing the farm’s nonprofit infrastructure and long-term stability so that the farm can continue to thrive as a welcoming, community-oriented space for years to come. Her leadership is deeply informed by lived experience: she identifies as deaf/hard of hearing and uses assistive technology to do her best work.

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