Meet Laura Figueroa, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst whose work in bee ecology and conservation earned her a spot in the Early Career Professional Recognition Symposium at the 2022 Joint Annual Meeting of ESA, ESC, and ESBC. Learn more about Figueroa and her work in this next installment of our “Standout Early Career Professionals” series. Here, Figueroa participates in Insectapalooza, an annual science outreach event hosted by the entomology department at Cornell University, where she earned her Ph.D. in 2020.