MY BACKGROUND

I’ve worked and lived in Fremont County for over four decades and my husband, John Gans and I have raised our 3 kids here in the beautiful Lander area.

I’ve worked professionally in the nonprofit sector managing staff and program delivery and as executive director, meeting payrolls and budgets. Raising kids shifted my focus to part-time consulting, which I continue presently. I’ve had a variety of clients as wide-ranging as the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribes, the Wyoming Association of Churches, the Nature Conservancy and the Wyoming Outdoor Recreation Business Alliance. I’ve served on the Lander School Board and also as a Fremont County Commissioner in the past. I have extensive experience as a lobbyist at the State Legislature and have served as a volunteer and board member with many charitable organizations.

I love adventuring with family and friends on our treasured public lands.

In my youth, I had a myriad of jobs including waitressing, teaching 8th grade and high school science, working with disadvantaged youth, and also as a wilderness instructor with the National Outdoor Leadership School in the Rocky Mountains, Alaska, Mexico and Kenya.

Horsepacking across the Red Desert.

Leadership Positions and Accomplishments

Federal and State Boards

  • BLM Citizen Resource Advisory Council (currently serving)

  • Governor Gordon’s Rock Springs RMP Task Force

  • US Department of Interior Pinedale Anticline Working Group

  • Governor Mead’s Upper Green River Basin Air Quality (Ozone) Citizens Advisory Task Force

  • Interstate Oil and Gas Commerce Commission Council on Regulatory Affairs

Elected Office

  • Lander School Board (Fremont District #1)

  • Fremont County Commission

Getting Things Done for the State of Wyoming

  • Campaign manager for the statewide multi-stakeholder effort that created the Wyoming Wildlife & Natural Resources Trust through law in our state legislature – the first such wildlife habitat and natural resource trust in the nation – 2005.

  • Worked with ranchers, outfitters, businesses and others to pass the Wyoming Range Legacy Act in Congress, sponsored by Senators Barrasso and Enzi – 2009.

  • Worked with industry to write gas field air quality standards that were adopted by the Wyoming DEQ and due to this Wyoming leadership, later adopted by the US EPA – 2012

  • Created the broad coalition Keep it Public, Wyoming – comprised of sportsmen, businesses, NGOs and others to address transfer and sale of public lands – 2016.

PRACTICAL, EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

My experience administering staff & programs and working with the public and various levels of government will serve Fremont County well!

Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of passage of the WY Wildlife & Natural Resources Trust with the WY Stockgrowers, former Gov. Dave Freudenthal and Gov. Mark Gordon.