More About Charlotte
Charlotte Ekker Wiggins was born in Louisiana and grew up in South America.
She has a master's degree in Management from Webster University, St. Louis and a Bachelor of Science special major in Broadcasting and World Affairs from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.
She became a University of Missouri Master Gardener Emeritus January 2021.
More About Charlotte
Charlotte Ekker Wiggins was born in Louisiana and grew up in South America.
She has a master's degree in Management from Webster University, St. Louis and a Bachelor of Science special major in Broadcasting and World Affairs from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.
She became a University of Missouri Master Gardener Emeritus January 2021.
- 2021 Missouri chapter Heroes to Hives Military Advisor.
- 2021 Missouri State Beekeeping Association delegate to American Beekeeping Federation.
- Elected January 2020 to Missourians for Monarchs Collaborative Steering Committee.
- Missouri State Beekeeping Association's (MSBA) partnership liaison since December 2018.
- MSBA's Education and Great Plains Master Beekeeping Committee member.
- Charlotte's Beginning Beekeeping Classes January and February 2020, as well as her books, are Great Plains Master Beekeeping program approved towards master beekeeper certification.
- Steering committee member and contributing author Missouri's Master Pollinator Steward program.
- TEDx Missouri S&T April 11, 2019 Beekeeping: Why Bugs Matter.
- Heartland Apicultural Society's July 11-13, 2018 17th annual beekeeping conference public relations chair at Washington University in St. Louis.
- Slow Food USA delegate to the 2016 Terra Madre world conference in Turin, Italy. 7,000 delegates from 141 countries met to discuss how to grow healthy, local food sustainably and protect the world's remaining biodiversity.
- Retired from USDA Forest Service in 2015 after a 30-year public affairs career.
- Also in 2015, Charlotte was MSBA Beekeeper of the Year for helping to change Missouri's honey labelling laws.
- Charlotte started Rolla Bee Club in 2014 to support students from her annual beginning beekeeping classes. The club became a 501(c)(3) Missouri educational non-profit summer of 2018.
- In 2009, Charlotte retired from a 21-year award-winning public affairs career with US Navy.
- She served as an elected Rolla City Council member 1999-2007.
- In 1998, she pioneered Bluebird Gardens, a custom online gift business based on her Missouri garden
- Charlotte's other associations include
- Garden Communicators International; Sisters in Crime; American Beekeeping Federation; Mo. Writers Guild; Mo. Master Gardeners Association; Mo. State Beekeepers Association; Mo. Botanical Garden; Missouri Prairie Foundation; Eastern Mo. Beekeepers Association; Three Rivers Beekeepers, Arts Rolla and Rolla Bee Club.
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