Laurie Davies Adams, Executive Director
Laurie Adams is the Executive Director of the Pollinator Partnership (P2) and has over thirty years experience in management and communications. She began her career at the Public Broadcasting Service, continued in independent film and television, has received numerous awards, including a Gold Medal at the New York International Film and Television Festival. Adams was a Director of the Fortune 500 Shaklee Corporation, has created permanent exhibits in Vancouver, San Francisco, and New York City and produced for Wells Fargo Bank, AT&T, and the Army Corps of Engineers. As Executive Director of the Pollinator Partnership, she has overseen the initial organization and the development of the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC), the 120 +member collaboration of stakeholders from Mexico, Canada, and the US that work for a variety of fields including science, the environment, agriculture, and private industry. NAPPC's successes under Ms. Adams include the National Academy of Sciences NRC Study on the Status of the Pollinators of North America, the US Postal Service's "Pollination" stamp series, and the US Senate and USDA proclamations creating National Pollinator Week.

Sunny Boyd, Creative Director
Sunny Boyd is the Creative Director and Webmaster for the Pollinator Partnership (www.pollinator.org) and the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (www.nappc.org). She has a love for all animals, is an advocate for animal rights, and works to help preserve and protect the environment. Prior to joining Pollinator Partnership in 2009, Sunny worked in the fashion industry in New York and San Francisco. Most recently, she worked at G-III Apparel in Product Development and Design in New York City. Sunny also worked at Macy’s in Buying and Visual Merchandising. She completed graduate studies at the Academy of Art University in the Master of Fine Arts for Fashion Merchandising program and received a B.A. from Coastal Carolina University in Art Studio. Sunny also holds a Web Design Intensive Certificate from San Francisco State University.

Stephen Buchmann, Ph.D., Interim NAPPC Coordinator
Stephen Buchmann currently serves as the Interim International Coordinator for NAPPC. He is a former USDA-ARS research entomologist and currently an adjunct faculty member in the entomology department at the University of Arizona, Tucson. His doctorate in entomology is from the University of California, Davis, and he has authored/co-authored 8 books and over 150 scientific publications. He served on a National Academies of Science National Research Council committee which published their findings as a book “Status of Pollinators in North America” this April. In 1996, he wrote “The Forgotten Pollinators” with Gary Nabhan from Island Press. Other books include “Pollinator Conservation Handbook (2003) with Xerces Society and “Pollinators of the Sonoran Desert” with ASDM in 2004. His latest books are “Letters from the Hive: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, and Humankind” from Bantam Dell (April 2005) and a children’s book “The Bee Tree” about Malaysian honey hunters (Cinco Puntos Press, April, 2007). Steve holds joint research appointments with the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. He was a founding NAPPC member, serves on its steering committee, and co-chairs the Research committee. He has been active in formulating international laws (Sao Paulo Declaration) protecting pollinators and helping put pollinator friendly language into the US Farm Bill. His research interests include native bee nesting behavior, conservation biology and pollination ecology, especially buzz pollination. Steve is currently working with Mayan beekeepers to promote meliponiculture in Quintana Roo, MX, and with the Pankarare culture in Bahia, Brazil. A television documentary on the “Sacred Bees of the Maya” is in production. One of Steve’s other passions is extreme resolution scanning (Creo flatbed scanner) and multi-focal scanning (Leica Z6 microscope) and giclee print-making of bees, butterflies, dragonflies and flowers. He’s begun assembling hyperfocal images of native bees for an illustrated field guide to southwestern bees.

Gregory Kellett, Habitat Gardens Coordinator
Gregory Kellett is the Gardens Coordinator for the Pollinator Partnership.  He has over 10 years professional gardening experience specializing in Californian native plants. He also dabbles in mycology as well as organic fruit and vegetable production.

Tom Van Arsdall, Director of Public Affairs
With three decades of experience in the national policy arena, Tom Van Arsdall is widely known and highly respected for his expertise and demonstrated track record on environmental, energy, bioenergy, ag research and conservation issues affecting U.S. agriculture, agribusiness and agriculture’s “downstream neighbors.” Tom currently serves as the Public Affairs Representative for the Pollinator Partnership, the Pollinator Partnership and the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign. He is particularly well known for helping diverse stakeholders work together toward consensus-based actions. He has a thorough understanding of the legislative and regulatory process and how to get results. Other current clients include the National Coalition for Food and Agricultural Research [Executive Director], CHS Cooperative and U.S. BioEnergy. Tom received his MA in economic geography from the University of Illinois. Van Arsdall is involved in his local community as a volunteer leader of Friends of the Rappahannock, a river protection group.

Vicki Wojcik, Ph.D., Associate Program Manager
Vicki Wojcik is an optimistic ecologist and city dweller that believes human populations and the natural world can coexist. For the past five years she studied the impact of urban landscapes on local bee populations, with a particular focus on how habitat resources are perceived and used by urban bees. Her urban studies included tropical landscapes in developing countries and established temperate metropolitan areas in order to achieve a complete understanding of how varied human lifestyles impact pollinators. Recently, she has become increasingly interested in how policy and management decisions impact the conservation potential of conservation reserves, infrastructure landscapes, utility rights-of-way and industrial lands. In utility landscapes her work seeks to create best management practices that increase the ecosystem services provided by rights-of-way and to promote native bee populations. Vicki is also leading the P2 team in an evaluation of the economic and ecological value of current government programs that provide credits and payments for pollinator provisions in rangelands and agricultural systems. As part of P2’s scientific consulting team Vicki develops protocols and evaluates the effectiveness of targeted restoration efforts on private and corporate lands; this work is currently focused on integrating pollinator habitat development into soil and water conservation efforts and on understanding how alternative timberland management systems impact managed and native bees. Vicki’s work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, books, magazines, and industry publications; most recently she coauthored a review on the status of pollinator conservation in utility landscapes with Stephen Buchmann which can be found in the Journal of Pollination Ecology. Vicki received her B.Sc. Honours from the University of Guelph in Canada in 2004 and her Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy, & Management from UC Berkeley in 2009. In addition to her work at P2, Vicki holds an appointment as a lecturer in biology at the University of California, Berkeley. When she isn’t professionally planning and managing landscapes for pollinators you can find Vicki in her home garden in San Francisco helping the local urban bee population.

Brian Marston, Bookkeeper
Brian Marston is President of JNM Associates, Inc. Mr. Marston has over 20 years of accounting and bookkeeping experience helping both large and small organizations maintain financial records for legal and tax purposes, and for internal business control. He has more than seven years experience doing medical billing for small medical offiMr. Marston earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with emphasis in accounting. He is a Quickbooks Professional Advisor and a member of the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers.

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