Biography:

Maryam Henein is a Canadian-born investigative journalist, activist, functional medicine consultant, filmmaker, and entrepreneur.

She directed the documentary Vanishing of the Bees narrated by Ellen Page. With George Langworthy, Henein directed the 2010 documentary (which took five years to produce), Vanishing of the Bees with Ellen Page narrating the film.

Since the release of Vanishing of the Bees, Henein has become an outspoken advocate of bees and bee colonies, non-GMO foods and reducing the release of pesticides into the environment.

Henein is the founder of HoneyColony Inc., a member-supported online magazine that hosts a number of optimized-health and investigative writers called “Hive Advisers”.

Henein continues to work on projects involving bees and contamination of the food supply. She is working on a memoir titledOf Bees & Men and launched a year-long Save the Bees campaign in June 2014.