The Steering Committee provides strategic guidance, supports coordination among partners, and helps establish the governance structures to advance VPWG's shared mission and growth. It brings together a wide range of expertise across managed and wild bees, pesticides, habitat, and education, and represents the beekeeping industry, academia, non-profits, pollinator-focused businesses, and diversified farms.
Samantha Alger, PhD
University of Vermont Vermont Bee Lab
Spencer Hardy
Vermont Center for Ecostudies + The Farm Upstream
Leslie Spencer
Food Systems PhD Candidate at the University of Vermont
Emily May
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
Tobi Schulman
Bird and Bee Native Plants
Sydney Miller
University of Vermont Vermont Bee Lab