{"id":140,"count":1,"description":"\"\"Erika Thompson is the Founder and Owner of Texas Beeworks and the most-followed beekeeper in the world. She is a proud native Texan, has called Texas home every day of her life and graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in Geography and the Environment. As a child, she was fascinated with insects and spent her nights and weekends in her backyard in Houston, Texas collecting every bug and critter could find. Her love for bugs continued throughout her life and she took a beekeeping class in 2011 with no intention of becoming a beekeeper, but simply because she wanted to learn more about honeybees as a species. She walked away from the class enamored with bees and started her first hive in her backyard in central Austin. As her adoration and admiration for honeybees grew, so did her number of hives. She started Texas Beeworks in 2014 while working a full-time, fast-paced job as a Communications Director. After years of doing beework on nights, weekends, and even lunch breaks, she quit her office job to become a full-time beekeeper and hasn\u2019t looked back. Her work with honeybees and her advocacy efforts to protect pollinators has been featured on CNN, the BBC, the Washington Post, NPR, the Today Show, the Joe Rogan Experience and more.","link":"https:\/\/sustainablehuman.org\/speaker\/erika-thompson\/","name":"Erika Thompson","slug":"erika-thompson","taxonomy":"speaker","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablehuman.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablehuman.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablehuman.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/speaker"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablehuman.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories?speaker=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}