Throughout Wyoming’s history, its women have been brave, strong, and impactful. The mission of Women in Wyoming is to tell the inspiring stories of contemporary Wyoming women through art and media, celebrating their achievements, power, and learned wisdom. From artists to politicians, ranchers, authors, businesswomen, and community stewards, creator Lindsay Linton Buk highlights some of Wyoming’s changemakers, rule-breakers, and innovators through podcast interviews and portrait photography. ...
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Sara Wood | Regenerative farmer, heirloom grain grower and flour miller
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Sara Wood is the owner and founder of Wyoming Heritage Grains, a direct to consumer regenerative farm and flour mill specializing in heirloom and heritage wheats, barleys, and ryes.In 2017, Sara became curious about why more people are gluten intolerant and discovered heritage and heirloom grains, which are ancient, pre-hybridized varieties of whea…
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Dr. Marnie Peterson | Wyoming scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur
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Wyoming scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur Dr. Marnie Peterson is an expert in infectious diseases, antibiotic resistance, and experimental therapeutics. Marnie has invented several patents for her discoveries, conducted research for the National Institute of Health and Department of Defense (among others), and educated the next generation of sc…
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Jasmine Pickner Bell | Two-time world champion hoop dancer and educator
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Jasmine Pickner Bell, or Cunku Was’te Win’ meaning “Good Road Woman” in Dakota, shares the sacred hoop dance with the world. The two-time world champion, who is a member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe (also known as Hunkpati Oyate), began training with her father, the renowned hoop dancer Dallas Chief Eagle. Traditionally the hoop dance only allowed…
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Elizabeth Fernandez | Executive and Artistic Director of RMSA and RMDT
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Dancer, teacher, and choreographer Elizabeth Fernandez creates a space for performing artists in Cody, Wyoming as the Executive and Artistic Director of Rocky Mountain School of the Arts (RMSA) and Rocky Mountain Dance Theatre (RMDT). After graduating with honors from the University of Northern Colorado in Dance Teaching/Movement Analysis and Dance…
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Hillary Walrath | Wildlife biologist and founder of the Seedskadee Women’s Fly Fishing Float
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Hillary Walrath grew up on a remote ranger station in northern Idaho where the Lochsa River flowed through her backyard. That experience instilled an intrinsic connection to water, wild places, and rivers, which have remained a constant presence in her life, and which she has translated into her career. As a Wildlife Biologist and Outreach Coordina…
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Rosie Berger | Former Wyoming legislator and community leader
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The eldest of seven children, Rosie stepped into leadership at an early age. Growing up on a dairy farm in Daleyville, Wisconsin, Rosie determined by age 13 to get a good education, learn French, and travel. She worked in Switzerland and studied art history at the University of Wisconsin. On a road trip out West, Rosie fell in love with the Rocky M…
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Lauren Gurney | D.U.S.T.O.F.F. MEDEVAC pilot and owner of Jackson Hole Cake Company
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Wyoming’s only female Army MEDEVAC pilot, Lauren “Lolo” Gurney’s mission is to fly and save lives. Piloting UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, Lauren’s flight journey had humble beginnings, first inspired by watching the movie Dumbo as a child. Between the ages of 9 and 19, she raced cars with her dad and worked as a mechanic in his pit crew; when she wa…
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Ann Simpson | Wyoming steward, mental health advocate, and champion for the arts
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Ann Simpson grew up on a small farm in Greybull, Wyoming. As the wife of former United States Senator Alan Simpson, she had the opportunity to travel and experience the world. The exposure to people and cultures here and abroad informed and inspired Ann’s many projects across the decades. Throughout her years in politics, first with father-in-law M…
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Jill Winger | Online homestead mentor and author of The Prairie Homestead Cookbook
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Jill Winger’s homesteading evolution began when she and her husband Christian bought a 67-acre, tumbledown property outside of Chugwater, Wyoming. Flooded with an overwhelming rush of inspiration on how she could make their land sustainable, they started a compost pile, bought a few chickens, and began delving into the homesteading lifestyle. In 20…
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Jessie Allen Gottwald | Director of Allen's Diamond 4 Ranch
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Jessie Allen Gottwald is a sixth-generation Wyoming outdoorswoman whose mission is to create connection and community in the mountains. Living off the grid for half the year at 9,200 feet, Jessie owns and directs Allen’s Diamond 4 Ranch, located in the heart of the Wind River Mountains and Wyoming’s highest elevation guest ranch. A multifaceted wom…
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What's Ahead... Chpt IV: Rising, a preview of Chpt V: The Cowgirl State & the Women in WY exhibit
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What's Ahead ... Chapter IV: Rising, exploring themes of creativity, imagination, and leadership, a preview of the fifth and final chapter, Chapter V: The Cowgirl State, addressing evolution and owning it, as well as the multimedia Women in Wyoming exhibit at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.Image credit: “The Awakening: Lady Liberty stands astr…
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Aura Newlin | Wyoming anthropologist and educator on the Japanese American incarceration of WWII
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Aura Newlin is an anthropologist, educator, advocate and public speaker whose Wyoming roots run deep. A 4th-generation, Japanese American Wyomingite, Aura grew up in Riverton, Wyoming. Her parents, former peace-corps volunteers, exposed Aura and her siblings to a broader world through international volunteer work. This global imprint influenced Aur…
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Rita Watson | The longest serving employee at the Wyoming Department of Education
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Rita Watson grew up during the Jim Crow segregated south in Durham, North Carolina. She was the first black person to work at Woolworth’s Five and Dime store in Durham and continued to advance in her career as the climate improved for African Americans in the United States. In 1965, Rita moved from the south to the rural West after her husband was …
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Climb Wyoming | A statewide nonprofit helping low income single moms discover self-sufficiency
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Single mothers and their children experience the highest rates of poverty among families in Wyoming. Climb Wyoming is a statewide non-profit helping to alleviate poverty by providing free job training, life skill development, mental health counseling and guaranteed job placement to low-income, single mothers living in six communities around the sta…
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Wyoming Latina Youth Conference | A leadership program centered around “The Power of Choice”
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A two-day creativity, STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics), and leadership conference, the mission of the Wyoming Latina Youth Conference (WLYC) is to raise the aspiring wealth of Wyoming Latinas ages 5-12th grade through mentoring, education and awareness. Attendees hear from a successful, nationally renowned keynote speaker …
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Mickey Thoman | Ranching matriarch of the W&M Thoman Ranch
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A cowgirl, mentor and genuine leader, Mickey Thoman epitomizes the true grit that defines the spirit of the American West. A living legend and ranch matriarch, Mickey and her three daughters operate the W&M Thoman Ranch, a fifth-generation family ranching business in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. The Thoman women raise fine-wool Rambouillet sheep, a …
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Lori Materi | Backcountry pilot and rural airstrip advocate
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Backcountry pilot and rural airstrip advocate Lori Materi came from a flying family in Upton, Wyoming. Her father was a navigator in WWII and later, used his plane as a means to transport Lori and her siblings across the state. Growing up, Lori was afraid to fly, but after moving back to Upton with her family, the urge to fly became so strong she c…
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Megan Grassell | Founder & CEO of Yellowberry
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Megan Grassell is a teen founder and the CEO of Yellowberry- a bra, underwear, activewear and loungewear company for girls ages 8-14. Megan grew up in Pinedale, Wyoming and later in Jackson as a competitive ski racer. She founded Yellowberry when she was 17 years old after discovering the only option for her younger sister's first bra was a leopard…
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Rev. Bernadine Craft | Episcopal priest, former state senator & community steward
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Rev. Bernadine Craft is an Episcopal priest, former state representative, psychotherapist, and the Executive Director of Sweetwater BOCES in her hometown of Rock Springs, Wyoming. In her multiple community service roles, Bernadine's primary concern is being a voice for the voiceless. As a state senator and representative, having served in both Wyom…
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Dr. Diane Noton | Rural medicine practitioner and emergency room physician
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Dr. Diane Noton has dedicated her life to serving small towns in Wyoming. First, as a family medicine physician in Saratoga, Wyoming and later in Meeteestse, Wyoming. Most recently, Dr. Diane has served rural Wyoming as an emergency room physician in Worland, Wyoming. After years in private practice, she found she loves the structured timeframe of …
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Lynette St. Clair | Shoshone linguist & cultural preservationist
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Lynette St. Clair grew up in Ft. Washakie, Wyoming on the Wind River Reservation. A linguist, cultural preservationist, former educator and education consultant, Lynette is passionate about preserving and sharing the Shoshone language with the next generation and with the world. Lynette was awarded the National Johnson O'Malley Teacher of the Year …
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Behind-the-Scenes with WW Project Director/Photographer Lindsay Linton Buk
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A behind-the-scenes interview about the Women in Wyoming series featuring Project Director/Photographer Lindsay Linton Buk by Isa Jones, Entertainment Editor with the Jackson Hole News & Guide. Learn about why Lindsay created the Women in Wyoming series and what's next for Chapter 2.Par Lindsay Linton Buk
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Affie Ellis | Wyoming's first Native American State Senator
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In January 2017, Affie Ellis became the first Navajo and first Native American person to ever serve in Wyoming's State Senate. Affie's adamant that her rise to politics is a job, not her identity, she's committed to doing the best possible job for Wyoming. Affie's story of success is one of self-starting and stepping up. Podcast produced by Linton …
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Nimi McConigley | Groundbreaking journalist & politician
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Nimi McConigley’s storied life began in Madras, India where she became an established journalist- working for India’s first and to-date, only female Prime Minister, Indira Ghandi. Later, Nimi became the first woman of color to run a television news station in Casper, Wyoming, and later, ran for office and became the first Indian-born person in the …
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Nina McConigley | Award-winning author & professor
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Nina McConigley is an accomplished author whose work tells a less common story of Wyoming- one of identity, race and the immigrant experience in the rural West. Nina's first book, Cowboys and East Indians, won the prestigious Pen Open Book Award in 2014, as well as the High Plains Book award and made Oprah’s List. Nina tells me what it was like gro…
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Clarene Law | Self-made business mogul & community steward
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Clarene grew up in a blue-collar family and became a self-made millionaire through her hotel and business endeavors. Clarene doesn’t think of herself that way, though. In her mind, her greatest success is her network of relationships with others, because it’s their support that got her to where she is today. Clarene is well-known in her community a…
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Marilyn Kite | Wyoming's first female Supreme Court Justice
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Episode 02 features Wyoming's first female Supreme Court and first female Chief Justice, Marilyn Kite. Marilyn is thoroughly a Wyoming woman - she was born in Laramie, attended the University of Wyoming, and stayed in Wyoming after graduation where she’d be an influential force in developing the Wyoming branch of Holland & Hart (now a nationwide la…
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How do we thrive? Wyoming is the least populated state in the country and 10th largest in size. According to national census figures, it’s home to an estimated 585,501 residents spread out over 97,818 square miles.This vast, endless space can be completely awe inspiring and wildly monumental, while at the same time, feel isolating and prove a harsh…
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Neltje | Abstract expressionist painter, author & artist
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The debut episode of the Women in Wyoming series features the artist, Neltje. Neltje overcame abuse and alcoholism to realize her strength as an abstract expressionist painter and author. In her 80’s, Neltje has lived in Wyoming for over 50 years now, and is unafraid to live out loud. She paints 10x30 foot abstract expressionist canvases and recent…
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