Leigh-Kathryn Bonner

Author: Leigh-Kathryn Bonner

Leigh-Kathryn Bonner is the founder and CEO of Bee Downtown, a North Carolina-based startup that recently expanded to Atlanta, including hives placed on the GWCCA campus. In four years she has grown Bee Downtown from a small startup with three beehives, to a business that works with some of the biggest companies in the United States such as Delta, AT&T, Intercontinental Exchange, Burt's Bees, IBM, SAS, Georgia Power and the GWCCA. She has been named a Southern Living Southerner of the Year, an Inc. Magazine 30 under 30 2018 Rising Star and most recently to the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30.

Happy Summer & Pollinator Week from the GWCCA Honeybees!

GWCCA bees are back and bee-tter than ever! But what exactly have our bees been up to this year? In January, our bees were in a temporary location near our loading docks, awaiting a brand new home adjacent to the beltline connector. Inside the hives, the honeybees were clustered in a ball around the queen […]

Bee Downtown CEO: Sustainability is GWCCA’s “Beesness”

Every once in a while, you meet someone that “gets it.” Someone that truly gets the importance of using business as a force for environmental good. Last year I was working to expand my North Carolina-based business Bee Downtown with our first forrays into Atlanta. At Bee Downtown we install and maintain beehives on corporate […]

Bee Downtown CEO: Sustainability is GWCCA's "Beesness"

Every once in a while, you meet someone that “gets it.” Someone that truly gets the importance of using business as a force for environmental good. Last year I was working to expand my North Carolina-based business Bee Downtown with our first forrays into Atlanta. At Bee Downtown we install and maintain beehives on corporate […]

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