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Our Collaborators
Our collaborators are unified in their unstoppable desire to improve the world for generations to come.
For more than 20 years, Roni has been putting to use her creative talent in digital media, graphic design, video production, and event production, for the greater good. Her many accomplishments include championing conservation by launching her own media outlet, EarthGirlz; raising consciousness for bees through a gourmet food and film experience, and spearheading a global community day across 25 Latin American cities.
A self-starter and go-getter, Roni’s enthusiasm and resourcefulness galvanize people to act for the betterment of society. She’s doing it again with Bears Bees + Brews.
Holly Fisher is the owner of Fisher Creative Marketing and a StoryBrand Certified Guide. She’s helped dozens of organizations clarify their marketing message and develop an effective sales funnel that generates more leads and boosts their bottom line. A long-time professional writer and former full-time journalist, Holly believes in the power of story to inform and engage. After moving with her husband and daughter to Asheville in 2021, Holly was quickly enamored with all the wildlife (especially the bears!). She’s eager to help promote conservation and coexistence with our wildlife. In her free time, Holly enjoys doing CrossFit, hiking and reading.
Dr. Terri Lechner is the director of community outreach and board member for The Center for Honeybee Research. An experienced beekeeper, she has a deep respect and understanding of the honeybee and a love of all pollinators. For the last five years she has helped raise awareness of the insect apocalypse, and how their decline negatively affects our planet’s much needed biodiversity.
Driven by her passion and commitment to creating a healthier world–one where we can coexist with all creatures–she is once again joining forces with Bears Bees + Brews to help educate and inspire our community.
Catherine Mencher’s career began as a second grade teacher on the Navajo Nation, learning of uranium mining’s impact and driving past riverbeds rerouted to Las Vegas. She is a non-profit “Jill of all trades” for College Track, an organization equipping students confronting systemic barriers to earn a bachelor’s degree in pursuit of a life of opportunity, choice, and power, and formerly for Green Windows, a creative writing nonprofit.
Since moving to Asheville in 2019, she has been itching to lend her skillset in service of the WNC community and wildlife. She enjoys killing grass in her South Slope yard, creative writing and bopping around town with her 2 and 4 year old.
Jeff Hunter is the Asheville based North Carolina Senior Program Manager for NPCA. NPCA, which was founded in 1919, is an independent, nonpartisan voice working to protect and enhance America’s National Park System for present and future generations.
Jeff is an avid hiker, backpacker and birder. He relocated to Western North Carolina in 2015 from California’s Eastern Sierra, where he led an effort to protect the Bodie Hills from an open pit gold mine. Prior to that, he lived in Chattanooga, TN where he led the Tennessee Wild campaign. He and his wife Caara live in Burnsville, NC with their dogs Shadow and Abbey, and their cat Trouble.
Ian is one of Asheville’s most cherished and gifted muralists. Nationally recognized for his work, Ian completed a live painting of a bear during the first Bears Bees + Brews Festival. We’re delighted to welcome him back in 2022.
Ian is a teaching artist with Asheville City Schools and the director of Asheville Mural Project, an initiative of nonprofit organization Arts2People, which exists to beautify and diversify Asheville’s urban landscape. When he’s not contributing his talents to local organizations like Bears Bees + Brews and Arts2People, Ian is spending time with his wife Angie and their three children.
Michele Scheve has been in the Asheville community since 1997. She is former publisher of the long running parody paper Tha Asheville Disclaimer. For the last decade, Michele has been producing Slice of Life Comedy Standup shows at The Orange Peel other premier venues, as well as her radio show Slumber Party AVL on 103.3 Ashevillefm.
During the past couple of years, Michele also helped create Buzz Radio Asheville, which plays All Asheville Music, partner to Biz Radio Asheville, for Asheville community based talk. She is on the Western Women’s Business Center Board and is a co-producer of Asheville Music Video 2022.
Tao Semko is an information publisher, teacher, writer, and editor, who puts his degrees in biology and marine science to work in conservation education volunteerism.
His occupation is teaching individuals and groups how to seamlessly navigate transitions in consciousness that arise during peak experiences and during meditation, prayer, and mind-body cultivation, so that they can continue to be productive members of society, supporting and nurturing their fellow beings, while deepening their personal connections to the mystical and profound.
You can join our team and help raise conservation awareness too!