Mikayla designs and maintains the database applications for the Bee Informed Partnership since 2011. Mikayla has a Master’s degree in Entomology from the University of Tennessee and has worked in University database computing roles since 1994. She has been a beekeeper since the late 1990s as well, with a keen interest in applying information technology to agricultural sciences and education. She has worked on numerous USDA projects since 2008 in response to the decline in bee health, first at Tennessee then joining the University of Maryland bee lab from 2021 to 2023.