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Mikaila Ulmer

Founder
Healthy Hive Foundation

Mikaila Ulmer is an Austinite, entrepreneur, and author. She studies Economics and International Studies at Emory University as a Woodruff Scholar. At four-and-a-half, Mikaila founded Me & the Bees, a social good lemonade product that saves the bees, and she has since scaled it to be distributed in over 6,500 stores with over 3 million bottles sold. In 2016, she founded the Healthy Hive Foundation: a non-profit that researches, protects, and educates about pollinators. The healthy hive has partnered with numerous schools to provide educational tools, beekeepers to support their hives, and farmers. She was a success on ABC’s Shark Tank, one of TIME’s 30 most influential teens, and a biodiversity ambassador for the National Parks. She was recently awarded a 2023 NAACP Image award for Entrepreneur of the year and listed on AfroTech’s Future 50 list of 2023.

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