I’ve lived in Big Sky year-round for the past 34 years, most of that time in the two-bedroom, Meadow Village home we built as newlyweds that eventually expanded to a five-bedroom home where we raised our two daughters and still live. I met my husband, Taylor Middleton, on a magazine assignment 34 years ago and moved here almost immediately.

In the three decades since then, I’ve continued to use my skills as a journalist to write books, magazine articles and more, as well as to advance community projects I’ve spearheaded, including small things like the first translator for NPR and the original BSOA POST committee, to bigger projects like creating Camp Big Sky, co-founding Big Sky Broadway, helping create and pass legislation in Helena and locally that allowed us to have a high school, leading the effort that won us the first community playground, and finding the federal funds for the trail on the highway.

I’ve served on the BSCO, the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center and Chapel Boards, been an elected trustee in the school district, a founding member of FOBSE, the Ophir School Council’s now PTO president, and am currently the chair of Colorado Outdoor Education Center in Colorado. I am a graduate of Northwestern University (MS, Journalism) and Washington University (BA, Political Science and English Literature.