Sarah Red-Laird
Sarah Red-Laird is the founder and Executive Director of the Bee Girl organization. She studied at the University of Montana where she chose honey bees and Colony Collapse Disorder as her Davidson Honors College research thesis. She found a niche combining her love of bees with her education, outreach, research, conservation, and non-profit experience to encourage and support beekeepers and bee lovers through her nonprofit organization, Bee Girl. Sarah is the US Ambassador of the International Bee Research Association’s (IBRA) BEEWORLD project, the Kids and Bees Director for the American Beekeeping Federation, mentor in the Oregon State Master Beekeepers Program, the Regional Representative for the Southern Oregon Beekeepers Association, mentor and coordinator of the Southern Oregon University Beekeeping Club and apiary, the Oregon Outreach Coordinator for the Bee Friendly Farming Initiative, and a 2012 graduate of the Ford Institute Leadership Program.
