Rebecca Ann Robertson
Founding Director Rebecca Ann Robertson, a veteran bee tender and community activist, resides in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She holds numerous positions, including: Rebecca has journeyed extensively, visiting bee temples globally that preserve ancient traditions and sacred beekeeping practices. She conceptualized and founded the Mayan Melipona Bee Sanctuary Project after being invited in 2020 to […]
Dr. Adolfo Iván Batún Alpuche
Dr. Batún Alpuche holds a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology specializing in Archaeology from the Autonomous University of Yucatán (UADY), a Master’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Florida, and a PhD in Archaeology specializing in the management and administration of cultural resources from the University of Florida in Gainesville, with a postdoctoral degree from […]
César Antonio May
Linda Go
Stephen Buchmann, PhD
STEPHEN BUCHMANN, is a pollination ecologist specializing in bees, and an adjunct professor with the departments of Entomology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. A Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, he has published over 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers and eleven books, including The Forgotten Pollinators, with its prescient (1996) warning of global pollinator declines, […]
Gabrielle Vail, PhD
Traci Ardren, PhD
Traci Ardren is professor of anthropology at the University of Miami, and an archaeologist focused on Classic Maya culture. She has been a backyard beekeeper for many years and works with modern Maya women in Yaxunah to revive local traditions of melipona bee tending. Her current research is focused on the use of beeswax in […]