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Candidate Information
Candidate for President - Janice Pulver
Janice Pulver is the Operations Superintendent for York County Mosquito Control since the start of 2023. She graduated from James Madison University in 2014 with a BS in Geographic Science and minor in Environmental Science. During and after college she had seasonal jobs monitoring and banding endangered and threatened species of shorebirds in New Jersey and New York. In 2016 she started her career in Mosquito Control as the Mosquito Control Technician/Biology Assistant for Suffolk Mosquito Control. Wanting to move closer to her new home, she took the position at York County Mosquito Control as the Mosquito Control Technician in 2017. In 2018 she was promoted to the Biologist position and held it for the next few years. Participating in local/state Mosquito Control organizations, she was the Coordinator for the Virginia Arboviral Surveillance Team from 2018-2021. Outside the world of mosquitoes, she enjoys hunting, fishing, and spending time with her husband, three dogs, chickens, and turkeys.
Candidate for President Elect - Rachel Kempf
Rachel Kempf is a senior Environmental Health Specialist with the Fairfax County Health Department’s Disease Carrying Insects Program (DCIP). After graduating from the University of Oklahoma with a B.S. in biomedical zoology and a B.A. in anthropology in 2007, she began her vector control career as a seasonal technician with DCIP in 2009. After two summers trapping mosquitoes and ticks, she was hooked and obtained a permanent position with Prince William County’s Mosquito and Forest Pest Management Program in 2011, where she spent the next nine years immersing herself in all aspects of an IPM program, with a particular emphasis on the outreach and education efforts of the branch. She took numerous graduate courses in Environmental Science at George Mason University and served on a variety of VMCA committees. As the co-chair of the information committee, she designed and helped to publish the Skeeter for several years. In 2020 she returned to Fairfax County DCIP and was promoted to a senior EHS role in 2024, where she currently oversees the inspection and larviciding efforts of the program. When she’s not in the DCIP lab or out in the field, she can be found teaching aerial hoop classes at a local studio, photographing insects with her macro lens, walking her two unruly rescue greyhounds, Nixie and Patches, and spending time with her partner, Michael. She also adores scuba diving, metalsmithing, shooting portraiture and event photography, traveling, graphic design, and getting lost in the forests of Northern Virginia.
Candidate for Vice President - Michael Rollins
Michael Rollins As a 6-year member of Virginia’s Mosquito Control Association He believes it is time to give back to an organization that has taught him so much. He received his bachelor’s degree at George Mason University in Environmental Science and Policy, concentrating studies on aquatic ecology, sampling macros and looking at fish diets in the Potomac River. He would not have guessed mosquitoes as the macroinvertebrate he would have a career in, but it turns out they are infectious. He caught the mosquito management disease when he started as a technician for Prince William County’s Mosquito and Forest Pest Management Program in 2018. He worked for 6 years at Prince William County, receiving his first full-time position and later his first promotion. Last year he accepted a full-time position as an Environmental Health Specialist II with Fairfax County’s Disease Carrying Insects Program where he oversees the inspections of VDOT ponds and participates in mosquito and tick identification and the implementation of trapping and suppression activities. His passion for IPM and Vector Control stem from his desire to be outside and in nature helping others. When he is not in the lab or field, you can most often find him running, sitting on a bike or falling off rock walls. He is always ready to take on a new challenge and try something new. He believes becoming Vice President will be just that and looks forward to taking on the task.
Candidate for Vice President - Gina Serge
Gina Serge is a Vector Surveillance and Control Specialist with Henrico County’s Department of Public Works Vector Surveillance and Control group. She holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from Christopher Newport University and a master’s certificate in Landscape Pest Management from the University of Florida. She began her vector control career in 2021 as a seasonal technician.
Gina’s path to vector control was not a straight path, but rather a winding road with unexpected turns as her initial interests lay far away from the world of insects and vector control. Early in her career, she dedicated six years to water quality in the Virginia Beach area, where her testing expertise spanned surface water, ground water, storm water, and wastewater. She then took a rewarding six-year break to focus on raising her three small children before transitioning to her current work in vector surveillance and public health.
Since joining Henrico County’s VSC team, Gina has discovered that her deepest passion and motivation stem directly from the opportunity to help and support the community. Her work encompasses the entire community, as she makes contributions that include targeted resident inspections, leading outreach events that teach residents about personal protection, and by engaging even the youngest residents via elementary school mosquito programming. Gina also enjoys ‘getting back to her roots’ in the lab, performing Henrico’s RAMP testing for West Nile virus for the last 4 seasons.
Gina joined the VMCA in early 2022, and after her promotion to full time in December 2022, immediately began joining committees (Information and Photography) at the 2023 Conference. Demonstrating her commitment to leadership, Gina stepped up to chair the Photography Committee in 2024 and remains in that roll currently. Outside of work you can usually find her at the soccer field cheering on her 3 kids (a true soccer mom!), throwing the ball with her border collie or occasionally sitting down with a cup of coffee to work on a puzzle. As a budding gardener, she hopes her newfound respect for the insect world will help her hone her skills and become more successful at growing something other than tomatoes. Her family is starting to tire of spaghetti sauce.
Candidate for Treasurer - Jay Kiser
Jay Kiser has been a member of the Virginia Mosquito Control Association (VMCA) and a student of mosquito biology for over 18 years. He started his path at George Mason University and Old Dominion University where he received a bachelor’s and master’s Degree (respectively) in biology. In 2007, he started his mosquito career as a biology intern for the City of Chesapeake Mosquito Control Commission. In January of 2008, he became a biologist for the City of Suffolk Mosquito Control. During this time, he has remained active in local and state mosquito control groups: Treasurer of VMCA from 2024-current, Secretary/Treasurer of VMCA from 2018-2024, executive board member of VMCA from 2012-current (excluding 2017), past coordinator for TRAST, current coordinator for VAST, and past board member of TMVCC. As a VMCA member, Jay has contributed numerous presentations to the annual conferences, participated in and chaired several committees, and helped create VMCA’s first student competition.
Candidate for Industry Representative - Jenna Mora
Jennifer ‘Jenna’ Mora joined Central Life Sciences as the Northeast Regional Sales Manager in February 2025. She first found mosquito control back in 2017 where she worked as a seasonal lab assistant conducting mosquito surveillance in New Jersey. After her first season she fell in love with and pursued the field of entomology. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology with a minor in Entomology from Rutgers University in 2020. Upon graduating and for the last few years she worked as an R&D entomologist with the Hartz Mountain Corporation. Later in 2022, she started the pursuit of her Masters degree in Entomology at Rutgers University working in Dr. Alvaro Toledo’s lab developing an artificial tick feeding system. Jenna also believes very strongly in having an active voice in professional organizations. She has been involved with the New Jersey Mosquito Control Association (NJMCA) since 2017 and holds several committee chair positions including Public Relations, Website, and Newsletter. In 2024, the NJMCA presented her with the Presidential Citation for her contributions to the association. She is also active in the Entomological Society of America (ESA) where she is the current Eastern Branch representative for the Education and Outreach committee and the current MUVE Communications committee chair. Previously she served on the Young Professionals committee for the American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA). When not chasing bugs (as her friends call it), she loves spending time with friends and family, reading, rollerblading, and horseback riding.
Overall, Jenna feels that the mosquito control community is one of the most welcoming fields and professions out there. From attending meetings as an undergraduate student to being a new industry rep, everyone across the northeast has been so engaging and friendly! She is energetic and excited at the opportunity of being involved and contributing to the Virginia Mosquito Control Association and looks forward to seeing everyone at VMCA in 2026!