Barbara Rowley has called Big Sky home for 35+ years, raising her two daughters with her husband, Taylor Middleton, in the Meadow Village home they built as newlyweds.

A journalist and longtime community advocate, Barbara has played an instrumental role in shaping Big Sky. Her many contributions include creating Camp Big Sky, co-founding Big Sky Broadway, helping secure legislation that made a local high school possible, leading the effort to build Big Sky’s first community playground and securing federal funding for the highway trail. She also helped establish the original BSOA POST Committee.

Barbara has served on the boards of the Big Sky Community Organization, Warren Miller Performing Arts Center and Big Sky Chapel. She is a former elected school board trustee, a founding member of Friends of Big Sky Education and a former Ophir School PTO president. She currently chairs the Colorado Outdoor Education Center.

Barbara holds a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and English Literature from Washington University. She brings decades of community leadership, institutional knowledge and a deep commitment to preserving and enhancing Big Sky.