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S d is the founder and Executive Director of
the Bee Girl organization, a nonprofit with a mission to edu-
cate and inspire communities to conserve bees, their flowers,
and our food. Bee Girl projects are focused on regenerative
beekeeping, bee habitat research and education, and kids’ pro-
grams. She is a graduate of the University of Montana's College
of Forestry and Conservation with a degree in Resource Con-
servation, focused on community collaboration and environ-
mental policy. Sarah also serves as the “Kids and Bees” pro-
gram director for the American Beekeeping Federation. In
addition, she is excited to have begun her tenure as the West-
ern Apicultural Society’s 42nd president. She will do her best
to represent beekeepers of the Western states with integrity,
and will host the 2019 WAS conference in Ashland, Oregon.
When she is not tirelessly working with bees, beekeepers,
kids, farmers, land managers, and policy makers, Sarah loves
to read historical fiction, ride her bike, hike in the hills, see
new places and things, people watch, and snuggle any animal
that she can catch (like the tiny frog in the picture to the left).

Ashley Mitchell is a teacher and artist living in Missoula, Montana with
her potty-trained bunny. Her lifelong love of all things creative has given

her the opportunity to design not only book illustrations but also large
murals, tattoos, logos, county fair posters, and everything in between.
This eagerness to create is a value she works to instill in her students.

When she is not in her studio or classroom, she is fishing, floating, hik-
ing, biking and generally enjoying all the outdoor recreation Montana
has to offer.

In addition to our sponsors and partner organizations, I’d like to thank a few individuals for their inte-
gral work in producing this handbook: Dr. Dewey Caron, Emeritus Professor of Entomology & Wildlife
Ecology, Univ of Delaware, & Affiliate Professor, Dept Horticulture, Oregon State University; Ryan King,
Certified middle school teacher at Ruch Community School (K-8 public school); Jenni Maybin, Hoover
Middle School certified sixth grade teacher; Scott Debman, University of Montana Adjunct Professor,
PhD student; and India Bolding, Bee Girl Student Intern, Southern Oregon University Masters in Envi-
ronmental Education; Tammy Horn, KY State Apiarist, Kentucky Department of Agriculture; Guillermo
Fernandez, Director, Honeybee Conservancy.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a
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© Sarah Red-Laird / The Bee Girl Organization
www.beegirl.org/kidsandbees