Jackson Hole Woman 2014

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A special supplement to the Jackson hole news&guide • October 15, 2014

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that it’s hard to find time to date,” he said of being a single father. “I was on Match.com at one point because it can get lonely in this town. It’s a small town, and I am trying to find someone who is equally busy who understands.”

A Jackson Hole matchmaking service called Street Fox does understand.

It was started in 2013 by Christy Lawton, who saw a need to help men and women of a certain standing.

According to its website Street Fox “is a matchmaking service tailored to marriage-minded individuals who are ready to open their hearts, give love and receive their partner in life.

Our discreet and discerning services have satisfied dignified business and financial executives, renowned doctors and surgeons, thought leaders of academia and even our country’s elite servicemen and women, just to name a few.”

When interviewed by the Jackson Hole News&Guide in the summer of 2013, Lawton said she had an overflowing pool — or “den,” as she calls it — of eligible females.

So other than having a man sidling up to you — or saddling up to you if you are in the Cowboy Bar — Street Fox is one viable option for finding a date or a mate.

Grubbs said seeking love in a bar was no longer on her agenda seven years ago when she met the man she married.

“Cody and I met through a mutual group of like-minded friends,” she said of her husband, who is eight years younger than she and who she began dating when she was 32. “And we didn’t do the traditional dating thing of going to restaurants and bars. Instead we did a lot of outdoorsy activity — climbing, snowshoeing, things like that.”

Of their age difference, Grubbs said she had always liked younger

guys because she thought they were “trainable.”

“Boy, was I wrong,” she said.

Another venue for securing a date is Match.com. The same ratio of men to women in Jackson applies to the online dating service as well.

A quick perusal of the site for men and women with Jackson profile reveals a hefty number of males. Which, of course, isn’t entirely bad news for a female, as she can fairly easily whittle down her personal suitables from the unsuitables. A larger pool is an advantage in the search for love just as it is in the offline world.

For some women — usually in their 20s or 30s — there is “an app for that.”

“That” being a way to find a man who might be Mr. Right. Or at least Mr. Right Now. The name of the matchmaking mobile app is Tinder, which became available two years ago. It connects with users’ Facebook profiles to provide pictures and ages for other users to view.

Using GPS technology, Tinder users set a specific radius and then have the option to match with anyone within that circle. They can anonymously like or reject candidates by swiping or tapping. If two people like each other it results in a “match,” and Tinder introduces them and opens a chat.

Grubbs joked that Tinder sounds like a “booty call app,” although she does have some 20-something friends who have found success using it.

And then there is the old standby of being set up by a friend, which of course can be equally as hit or miss as meeting someone in a bar, in a yoga class, at the gym, on Match.com or via Tinder.

“The chemistry has to be right,” Barnett said of dating. “I really don’t have the answer.”

Grubbs said patience is a must when you are on the dating scene.

“I did find love here and have a happy marriage and a beautiful son to prove it, so it’s not hopeless to find true love in Jackson Hole,” she said.

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Odds are good, but ...

Technology helps Jacksonites find dates but in the end love is all about chemistry.

By Julie Butler

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ating almost anywhere is a challenge, but trying to find a suitable man in Jackson Hole is an adventure unto itself.

For women looking for love the challenge isn’t a numbers problem.

According to the 2012 U.S. census Wyoming has the second highest male-to-female ratio in the country. The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2013 American Community survey found that in the Equality State there are 122.1 unmarried men age 15 to 44 per 100 unmarried women in the same age range.

The Jackson male-to-female ratio is generally touted as 7-to-1. It’s actually 127.4 unmarried men for every 100 unmarried women, still above the state average. Unofficial word has it that the male-to-female ratio in Jackson spikes to 10-to-1 in ski season.

Clearly women here have their “pick of the litter,” as Clairey Sasser Grubbs, a former Jacksonite now living in Alpine, put it.

“But it’s harder to date, actually,” Grubbs said. “It may be seven men to every one woman, but chances are one of your girlfriends may have dated one of your boyfriends because the amount of women here is so limited. So the ‘girl code’ thing of not dating a friend’s old boyfriend sort of messes it up. It’s a small town.”

A certain number of men who come to Jackson, whether they are in their 20s or 40s, appear to be the Peter Pan types. History shows that these men come here to have fun, play hard and work just enough to afford that playing — serious playing. Committed serious relationships with women aren’t necessarily on the agenda.

“Jackson Hole seemed to be a very selfish place back when I first moved here at 19 and started dating,” said Grubbs, who is 39 now and happily married for three years. “People didn’t want to move here to start a career and a family. They moved here because they wanted to ski, guide, raft or fish, things like that. The reason to be here was for them not to find true love. Maybe it’s still that way.”

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Men outnumber women in this shot of New Year’s Eve 2013 at Town Square Tavern. It’s just one picture but it’s not a fluke: In Jackson Hole there are 127.4 unmarried men for every 100 unmarried women.

That assessment appears — in good measure — to still be accurate.

“I agree that there are a lot of Peter Pans,” said Zach Barnett, a 53-year-old resident who has lived here for 11 years. “It seems there is a trust fund culture here of men not working hard, just playing. There are a lot of ski dudes who come here. And then they become old ski dudes.”

But Barnett disputes the idea that all men in town are “baby men” and Peter Pans. A hardworking sales and marketing professional, he blanches at that notion and says the stereotype in no way applies to him and others like him.

“I sat in Pearl Street Bagels, and this woman in her 50s had friends visiting, and she started going on about the whole ‘odds are good, but the goods are odd’ thing,” he said. “She was over the top. I wanted to say something but didn’t.

“It goes both ways in this town,” he said. “The same thing exists for us. There are female Peter Pans, too — usually the younger women.”

Barnett lamented the fact that a lot of men in Jackson are working “flat out to survive” and raising their kids.

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“We have that league structure now,” Borshell said. “That’s all in Continued from 32 place. We have an established league there out there?” she said. “To have now. I can’t even tell you how excited a team is huge. It helped me discover that makes me.” the athlete I never thought I was.”

The apprenticeship the JuggerAs Frieda Prowl, Scott has gotten nauts earned this year is described in shape, has started going to the gym by the international association as a and has discovered her own aggres- “steppingstone to full WFTDA memsive side. bership” with requirements to ensure The Juggernauts, coming up on a given league is ready for the respontheir fourth season, have carved out sibilities that entails. their space one season at a time.

With a little more work, they will They have gone from a group of hope- be a nationally accredited league. fuls squinting at YouTube videos and Borshell and Scott have no reason scraping for a place to practice to one to believe that won’t happen.

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The women of “There is just the league did it so much about all themselves, roller derby you though Borshell can’t get anyis quick to also where else,” Scott credit the commusaid. “There’s a nity support they place for every found when they went looking. body type. You In the league’s come up together, y.” first year the you learn togethmembers lined – Julie Borshell er, and it’s just up sponsors, neOne the Jackson Hole the best feeling gotiated for pracJuggernauts founders in the world.” tice space, put The sport also up posters adverdraws diverse tising each bout, people with ditaught themselves the moves they had verse backgrounds, Borshell said. The seen online and generally did both the current Juggernauts roster features literal and the metaphorical legwork a pastry chef, a school counselor, a of getting their dream off the ground. server, a lab technician and a chief fiAt the same time they were craft- nancial officer, she said. ing the rules and procedures that Borshell is a mom and a lunch lady. would carry the league forward, if Scott manages Knit on Pearl. they ever got that far.

“I look at the team photo and I just As the crowds that fill Snow King like the diversity of it all,” Borshell Sports and Events Center for each said. “It’s what I liked about derby home bout testify, the women did in- to begin with, that there’s a place deed get there. for everybody.”

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A league of their own Juggernauts roll into 4th season with official ‘apprentice’ status.

By Emma Breysse

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here are not too many 41-year-old mothers of twins who are known as “Punkalicious” by most of their best friends.

Three years ago Julie Borshell didn’t imagine she would be one of them.

Now, as one of the top jammers for the Jackson Hole Juggernauts roller derby league, it’s possible that more people in the valley have met her as “Punk” than as Julie.

She couldn’t be more thrilled.

Borshell was one of the first women to try to bring a roller derby team to the valley, starting an ultimately failed league in 2006.

When Mercedee Lulay and Sara Michel started the Juggernauts in 2011 she was one of the

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At far right, Jackson Hole Juggernauts jammer Punkalicious — Julie Borshell in everyday life — tries to sneak around Ladies of the Lake blockers during a bout in May at Snow King Sports and Events Center.

first on board.

“I never hooked on to skiing in the way people do around here,” Borshell said. “I’m generally not all that sporty of a person. I’m active, but I never had the passion in that way.”

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hand-slapping and creating a negative environment, [but] that it really is responsive to the needs of staff.

“And what goes hand in hand with that is a strong degree of understanding that teaching is a profession,” Shea said.

She likens it to the medical field. But, though it may not as big an issue in the Jackson community, Shea said, “I do not believe it is widely recognized within the American public that teaching needs to be elevated to the level of respect that other professionals receive.”

The roots of teaching’s status originate in one-room schoolhouses run by schoolmarms hired by city councils, Shea said.

“That’s the long-standing tradition of it,” she said. “But then it moved into being a secondary position predominately filled by women, so they were the second-income earners of the family, not the primary income earners. And now that it rises to be a primary income for multiple families, that might be an economic pressure that helps elevate it.”

Though this is her last year leading Teton County’s schools, Shea said she does not plan to retire.

“I’m going to continue in the education field,” she said. “I certainly have a high interest in principal training, I have a high interest in what happens in preparation programs at the university, I have an interest in policy, education policy, and how it’s crafted.

“So I’m going to hit the pause button for a little bit, reconnect with my family,” the mother of twins said, “and then pursue my next interest.”

Shea doesn’t appear to be ruling out much. Is there a professorship in her future? Shea said, “maybe.” What about a run for the state Legislature? “Maybe.”

Shea alluded to concerns that might motivate her in one direction or another — the same motivations that brought her to school administration in the first

place.

Shea first became a principal in the 1990s after starting her education career as a teacher.

“I started teaching and developed a keen interest in becoming an administrator,” she said.

That was just as Teton County’s middle school was opening, Shea said.

She loved the job, she loved her colleagues, and she loved working closely with students and their families, she said. In time she was asked to assume more responsibility.

“We entered a period in Teton County when it was a little disrupted,” Shea said of the school district. “There was a high turnover rate, and as I watched it I began to see the negative effect and added stress it had on staff. So when the board decided to change the superintendency leadership and asked if I was interested, I said yes.”

The request wasn’t entirely unsought.

“It was in my game plan,” Shea said.

“It was a little early, because I was working on my doctorate at that point.”

Shea was studying standards for superintendencies in particular, she said, and was at that time deep in her coursework in the University of Wyoming’s doctoral program.

“I knew down the pike at some point that I did want to take the helm of a district,” Shea said, “so when this opportunity knocked, I saw a need for the district. I understood the district deeply and felt that I could help.”

Shea started as an interim superintendent. This year is her 11th in the position.

Her superintendency, though at a remove from teaching, has the same aims as a classroom teacher, Shea said.

“Going into administration is really in support of great teaching,” she said.

“It’s stepping up to ... a higher level of scrutiny and a higher level of accountability, ‘in service of,’” Shea said. “When you know you can make a difference and have an impact, that’s ultimately for the benefit of students, that’s the deal.”

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preschool is less than half the ratio required by the state.

Continued from 28 Adams said keeping ratios low is is one of the more difficult, often ex- a priority so as to optimize quality asperating parts of the job. and safety. Low ratios not only enAccording to the 2012 Teton sure superior care for infants but County Childcare Assessment, com- keep child care providers from bemissioned by Teton County, there coming overwhelmed and burnt out, were 1,283 children under the age and they make possible “meaningful of 5 in Teton County — about 6 per- interactions with the teachers every cent of the valley population — and day,” she said. just 746 slots for children at 24 liAnother important philosophy censed child care facilities. at Sweet Peas is operating around ChildcareCenters.us, a website each baby’s schedule instead of forcclearinghouse for information about ing all of them to nap, eat and play child care, lists 19 child care centers at set times. Adams said that’s not and says there are seven other fam- realistic, especially with several baily and group home day care provid- bies who may be at different ages ers, although that latter figure is in and developmental levels in the reality probably same room. much larger.

The schedCenters range ule for Bumblefrom large orbees is more ganizations like structured and the Children’s curriculumLearning Center based, focusing to smaller preon learning imschools like Sweet portant skills.

Peas to licensed For older children, school — and unlicensed – Rebecca Ariano takes place — home providmother of a 1-year-old from 9 a.m. to ers.

3:30 p.m., but The Children’s tuition covLearning Ceners care from ter is the largest 7:45 a.m. to center in Jackson Hole. It has two campuses, one 5:15 p.m.

The cost for Sweet Peas is $90 in Rafter J and another near Town Square, and also offers screenings a day, with the price dropping as and other services for children age a child matures. Crickets cost $73 a day, and tuition is $68 a day for birth to 5.

Sara Peters’ 17-month-old son, Lightning Bugs and Fireflies.

Parents exploring home day cares Samuel, also attends Children’s Learning Center several days a have several options, including Kid Power Home Childcare, which has week.

“I think it’s the most affordable been operated by Terri King for 27 and the best program in town,” Pe- years.

The home center provides care for ters said.

Peters said nowhere in Jackson is children ages 18 months and older cheap, but she finds the Children’s from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. five days a Learning Center’s price of $740 week on a year-round basis.

“I’m grateful that after 27 years a month for three days a week a manageable expense. That includes I still love my job,” King said. “It’s not an easy job, but it’s definitely breakfast, lunch and a snack.

Peters said Samuel is learning im- my passion.”

King said she works closely with portant social skills and tools that each family to provide an optimum will prepare him for kindergarten.

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in Jackson Hole, including items her father passed on to her, such as an enormous red phallus from Bhutan.

“I’m more of an educator,” Finkelstein said. “I’m not the funny person, but it is a good icebreaker. I like to do show-and-tell, like to explain things.

“I educate, you understand, we laugh a little and then take it seriously.”

There’s a lot of serious stuff to take into consideration — kidneys, ureters, bladder, prostate, testes, vagina — everything in the urinary tract, top to bottom, all susceptible to tumors, infections, leaking, anatomical problems, dysfunction, congenital problems, stones.

“Lots of stones,” Finkelstein said.

Her work encompasses everything from in-office consultation all the way up to surgery.

“I say it all the time: Everyone has to see a urologist at some time in life,” she said, “babies, kids, males, females. We deal with every kind of patient, which makes it fun.

“I’m a general urologist,” she said.

“In a big city urologists specialize. I see everyone. … Eventually everyone needs to see a urologist.”

Urology may seem more like one of those courses one finds oneself on rather than a course one charts. But for Finkelstein it was the obvious choice.

“My father is a urologist,” she said.

“That brought me down the urology path. He was my role model. He was passionate about urology.”

Raised in Philadelphia, Finkelstein finished her training in Michigan in 1993. At the time that made her the second female urologist in the world, she said. More than 20 years later, there are now a whopping 43.

“I just went to a meeting of state representatives of urologists,” she said. “I was one of three women in a sea of graying bald heads. … We need more women in leadership positions. … Women are better leaders ultimately, they are bet-

ter listeners.”

But, she added, “it’s not an attractive field for women. As a surgical subspecialty, the residency is too hard, too long, too male dominated. But once you get into it, that’s not necessarily true — or, it is true — it is hard … but they are all hurdles that women can surmount.

“The big difference is being the wife and mother in addition to being the surgeon in residence,” said Finkelstein, mother of two college-age children. “You have to have broad shoulders and a couple small testicles, which grow as you continue.”

After she finished her training, she and her husband, Marc, an anesthesiologist, considered moving back to Philly.

But, she said, they had good careers going and so stayed in Michigan until, in 2003, Marc got a job in Jackson Hole.

“He loves to ski,” Finkelstein said in an email. “I love to practice urology.

And I can practice anywhere since there is a shortage of urologists. I only wish that the winters were six weeks and the summer was eight months.”

In 2004 she starting her Suburban Urology Network — a “network” of one — and not long afterward began her singular ad campaign.

“I’ve been trying to stop” the ads, she said. “It’s expensive, but people come in because of them.”

Plus people pitch ideas that are irresistible. One recent idea came from her 22-year-old daughter, Jodi, who is a river guide. Taking off of a photo she took of four men in a row urinating into the water, it’s captioned “the Stream Team.”

“The bladder is a muscle,” Finkelstein said. “It can become dysfunctional,” and working it to squeeze liquid from the body can become difficult as we age. Just one of many indignities the flesh is heir to.

“More and more I find myself just being an educator,” she said. “I do surgery — I love surgery — but I try to keep that as a last resort. I just try to reassure the patient, let them know what’s going on.”

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halluses were sacred symbols in most ancient cultures — our word “fascinate” comes from the Latin “fascinum,” a domestic penis charm commonly displayed in Roman households — and they still are in some cultures today. In Bhutan they’re all over the place, painted on the sides of build-

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ings, sculpted in wood and stone and adorning homes and monasteries.

Here in the U.S., on the other hand, we prefer to keep our private parts private. Such things simply aren’t talked about, except with a smirk and in the proper company. It’s a touchy subject.

Which is why urologist Lisa Finkelstein finds it helpful to introduce a little humor in her specialty, particularly in her advertising.

Finkelstein achieved a bit of national fame in 2008 when one of her humorous Jackson Hole News&Guide ads made it to the “Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” Leno commented that he personally would not want a “funny or cute” urologist. Finkelstein responded with a new version of the ad that featured a man with the comedian’s unmistakable chiseled chin getting ready for a certain awkward exam.

Many of the ads in the long-running series are framed and hang on the walls of her exam rooms. There’s the one for erectile dysfunction that shows a banana protruding from a man’s jeans pocket. One shows a little boy “going” along with the rhyme, “If it ain’t like it used to pee, guess who you need to see?” Another suggests, “If you sprinkle when you tinkle come see Dr. Finkel.” And then there’s the one that made Leno, exhorting men to get their prostate checked: “See Dr. Finkelstein (she’s FUNNY and CUTE!)” And a whole lot more.

“Some think they are unprofessional,” she said, speaking in her office on the St. John’s Medical Center campus, “and I get that. They may think I’m making fun of disease or cancer.”

In fact, Finkelstein takes her profession seriously. Despite the silly puns and bad (and sometimes good) jokes. Despite the “PP DR” vanity plate. Despite the wall of shelving in her office that displays what has got to be the largest collection of phalluses See funny on 27

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Jackson Hole’s diverse group of female musicians includes Lauren Conrad and Jessie Lestitian, the bluegrass duo Shark Week.

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Making music many ways

From bluegrass to rock, women jam onstage.

Market and this past summer’s Water for South Sudan fundraiser.

Conrad also will be featured Oct. 24 at Teton Serenade at Dornan’s, an event designed to showcase female musical talent in the valley, especially those women who might not be catching Paste Magazine’s eye just yet.

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n Jackson Hole everybody plays hard, regardless of their sex.

For several of the valley’s ladies, that’s true in several senses of “play.”

Just ask Karee Miller Jaeger and Candice Miller Kwiatkowski. Or better yet, wait until they take a break from being onstage and then ask them.

Along with their bandmates in Bootleg Flyer the Miller Sisters will be providing the tunes for Bluegrass Tuesday at the Silver Dollar Bar and Grill for the rest of the month with their trademark twang and their favorite sparkly headbands.

“There’s a surprisingly diverse music scene here for such a small town,” Karee Miller said. “There’s room for a lot of different sounds and a lot of different artists, and people tend to be very supportive of us.”

The Miller Sisters and their ensemble projects, Mandatory Air and Bootleg Flyer, have been fixtures of the Jackson music scene for more than a decade, an impressive feat in a town where the transient population often makes it difficult to keep a band together.

Despite the challenges, many women keep Jackson’s ear with their musical talents — and several of them have quite a lot of talent to work with.

The Wyoming Arts Council recognized the talents of singer-songwriter Madelaine German this summer when it awarded her a $3,000 performing arts fellowship to help her get a leg up in her career.

German’s work is familiar to those who watched Off Square Theatre

“It’s amazing the talent we have here and the range of who plays and sings.”

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Candice Miller Kwiatkowski and Karee Miller Jaeger perform as the Miller Sisters and also with the bands Mandatory Air and Bootleg Flyer.

Company’s staged reading of “Mercy,” which told stories of the families served by the Community Resource Center, and to fans of the band Maddy and the Groove Spots, which features German on vocals and keyboard.

Two co-ed Jackson bands recently made Paste Magazine’s “Nine Wyoming Bands You Should Listen to Now.” One was the now-defunct Flannel Attractions, which featured two of German’s Groove Spots bandmates along with banjo diva Jessie Lestitian and guitarist Emily Yarbrough. The other was Screen Door Porch, featuring lead vocalist, guitarist and mandolinist Seadar Rose.

Lestitian also will be familiar to fans of the quirky bluegrass duo Shark Week. She provides the banjo and vocal harmony to guitarist and lead singer Lauren Conrad.

“We just like getting together and pickin’ for you all,” Conrad said during an apres-ski performance at the Alpenhof Bistro this past winter. “We hope you like being here with us.”

Shark Week is in many ways typical of the Jackson music scene: two talented friends who started out having fun and decided to take it a little more seriously along the way.

Lestitian and Conrad play bars, weddings and events like the People’s

“I think definitely unless you hit all the open mics in the valley, you have no idea who all is here,” event co-organizer Jenny Landgraf said. “We have a lot of women here who are just really good musicians who maybe aren’t great self-promoters but who are very talented, and that’s who we were hoping to highlight here.”

Landgraf, a bassist — who with her co-organizer and guitarist Sally McCollough makes up Shadow Mountain Honey — does occasionally play gigs and perform at open mic nights herself.

She said the Jackson scene is friendly to female talent.

“It’s definitely a welcoming scene,” she said. “It’s amazing the talent we have here and the range of who plays and sings. It’s great to be able to provide a chance for more of those people to be onstage and show what they can do.”

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versations with the other women “get her up the hill.”

“I am always struggling to keep up with the these ladies of the valley,” Clark said. “They have encouraged me and supported me in getting higher and higher.”

Where the women hike is decided by consensus. This year’s excursions included a “spring leafing” outing to Mosquito Creek, treks on Blacktail Butte and along Wally’s World on Munger Mountain, and an impromptu “let’s go see how it looks” hike to Table Mountain in the Gros Ventres.

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charter members of the Native Plant Society chapter here. Marsh recalls meeting Clark on an International Migratory Bird Day hike in South Park, and Clark remembers a plant society hike Marsh led on Munger Mountain.

And Clark recalls how helpful Lucas once was in showing her where to find steershead at the Murie Ranch.

Marsh said she’s known Boynton, a paddler and climber, since the late 1980s. They began hanging out together through the Bird Club.

“Bev was realizing that over 60 you’re not running up mountains quite the way you used to,” Marsh said. “She slowed down to the point where I could actually hike with her.”

Boynton, a retired nurse, brings an infinite curiosity to the group, Marsh said.

“I really want to understand the landscape through which I move,” Boynton said, “whether that’s on a trip to the Arctic or here. I like science.

“When I was an avid climber I was looking at flowers,” she said. “There was nothing better than to find a saxifrage on a belay ledge where no one could see it.” These days, she said, “my drive-by sightings are more focused.”

She still brings a mountaineer’s eye to her plant hunting, though.

“I like the ones in challenging environments,” Boynton said. “You’re up high, the wind is blowing, it’s dry and rocky, and there they are. And there I am.”

Marsh and Clark have given Boynton more of a year-round perspective.

“For me as the learner the two of them have helped me immensely to realize that when the flower is blooming that’s only one point in time,” Boynton said.

There’s “an unbelievable variety of leaves, all of which have some diagnostic feature,” Marsh said. “A lot of people just look at the flowers. You won’t get

“A lot of people just look at the flowers.

You won’t get far until the thing is blooming.”

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far until the thing is blooming.”

Hiking with the group has also given Clark new perspectives.

“I’m not a gardener any more because I go to the plants,” she said.

“There’s no way to replicate that. I get very technical with the book, then I put the book down, sniff the air and say, ‘Oh my gosh. Isn’t this amazing?’”

The former flatlander said her con-

“What’s in bloom or what is of interest botany-wise is often a strong influence on where we go,” Marsh said.

When a particular beautiful bunch of wildflower pops up, the women are out the door and headed up that way.

It’s their equivalent of a skier’s great powder day.

During the hike the women disperse and come back together as they find things of interest along the trail. With strong friendships and shared purpose they can relax and let the day unroll.

“What I really value about going out with [them] is it doesn’t have to be a death march,” Marsh said. “We feel each other’s interest intuitively.

“It’s not always like a science lesson.

We can hike for a couple of hours just chatting, then spend the next 20 minutes on one plant.”

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f you live in Jackson Hole you’re probably familiar with extreme skiing. But maybe you haven’t heard of extreme shrubbing.

For a group of nature enthusiasts it’s the sport of identifying plants in the dead of winter by looking for scars, buds, fuzz and other clues on the twigs and branches poking through the snow.

Susan Marsh, Frances Clark, Beverly Boynton and friends hike together in spring, summer and fall, working their legs but also working their brains as they study and savor wildflowers, aspen trees, willows and everything else that grows in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. It’s not just a matter of identifying plants but enjoying how they change through the seasons.

“Whatever time of year we’re in is best,” Boynton said.

“We truly have been following these plants from when they pop up in the spring through their whole life cycle to the point where they’ll reseed and go dormant.”

So even in winter the women head out on skis to decipher the few clues Mother Nature makes available at that time of year. The challenge is

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On a late-April hike in Mosquito Creek, Frances Clark shows Beverly Boynton the difference between male and female catkins. Clark and Boynton are among a group of friends, all hiking and botany enthusiasts, who get outdoors year-round to study growing things.

heightened when moose and deer browse away most of those clues.

“We call it ‘extreme shrubbing,’” Marsh said. “It’s kind of a game.”

The plant-loving hikers — they mention Joan Lucas and Amy Taylor as also being part of the group — bring varied experience to their year-round pursuit, and they play off one another’s strengths.

“The thing I like about going with Susan and Frances is, they have different backgrounds,

although they both end up being able to identify plants,” said Boynton, the novice of the group and the one who coined the term “shrubbing.”

Marsh has degrees in geology and landscape architecture, and she took botany electives whenever she could. A novelist and guidebook writer, she worked for 31 years for the U.S. Forest Service.

“Susan has decades of onthe-ground experience in this ecosystem,” Boynton said.

“Susan can tell you where the

fall colors are going to be best, where the first steersheads might appear, where fireweed is blooming.”

Clark is trained in horticulture and botany and is a former chairwoman of the New England Wildflower Society board. She moved to the Jackson Hole area about 3 1/2 years ago.

Clark’s style, Boynton said, is “technical.” She’s the one you are likely to see thumbing a guide such as “Vascular Plants of Wyoming,” which is

filled with line drawings and information on species and variations.

“Frances is a true botanist by training,” Boynton said.

“She is relatively new to this ecosystem, so because she’s a botanist she does go to the keys.”

Marsh said she doesn’t have much patience for crawling around to look at things and instead prefers to tap the knowledge she’s acquired from observing plants “year after year.” Guidebooks lack some of the details, she said.

“Sometimes the key is diagnostic but it doesn’t necessarily give you every aspect of the plant,” Marsh said. “So it may matter that the flowering stems are prostrate along the ground instead of upright.

“The key may not tell you something like that. I’ll zoom into something like that. It’s kind of how two different approaches work together.”

The back-and-forth “is always good science,” Clark said.

“With the field approach plus the technical approach you come to the answer. I learn from Susan’s eyes, then I dig in with my lens and see all the wonder inside of the plant that the taxonomists saw.”

Outside their hikes the women share their interests through the Jackson Hole Bird and Nature Club, Nature Mapping Jackson Hole and the Teton Chapter of the Wyoming Native Plant Society.

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“I wasn’t a daddy’s girl,” she said.

“When I was little I remember him saying, ‘Your stuff’s broke? Fix it.’”

While most of her friends might have been baby-sitting she washed cars after school. By the time she was 17 she owned a Dodge pickup with a Cummins engine. She now drives a Jeep Liberty with a Mercedes diesel.

Though she first thought of being a welder — her dad is in metal fabrication work — the magic of machines fascinated her: “You can tear apart a vehicle in an hour and a half and then put it back together and it runs,” she said, still sounding a bit amazed.

To start she learned by watching and asking questions, sometimes in person at shows and races, other times by watching YouTube.

While working at the Flying Saddle resort in Alpine she met Billie Hooker, the wife of Decker’s owner Ron Hooker.

It wasn’t long before they met, he discovered her interest and soon decided to give her a chance. After they talked “he knew that I knew enough,” she said.

She soon had a denim work shirt with an embroidered tag that said “Brandie.”

It goes well with the scorpion tattoo on the back of her hand.

Karford is a year into her training.

She started with dirty work, for instance, outside in the winter dealing with trailer axles. Now, though still a student, she’s working on real repairs. In another year she will receive certification for minor repairs from ASC, the association that oversees on-the-job training for mechanics. If she keeps up her on-the-job work and passes the right tests along the way, in about five years she’s likely to be fully certified.

It can be hard work, and “sometimes it’s frustrating, some days it’s discouraging.” It’s also not the cleanest job, though not every day is the same: “Some days I’m all dirty, sometimes it’s a clean day.

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As Brandie Karford uses a torque wrench, her fingernails bear the remnants of nail polish. Repairing cars is not the cleanest work, she said.

Karford likes that there’s so many jobs involved and that “every day is different.”

And then there are the customers.

She has been amused — or maybe horrified is the word — by the way some people drive their cars nearly to death. She’s seen some discouraging things: “cam shafts exploded, spark plugs blown out of the head, drive lines fallen and swung around and hitting gas tanks, brakes that have been on fire.”

And she is used to the face made by some people who are surprised to find their ride in the hands of a girl, though it’s not what you might expect.

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Pro freeskier Dyer decides to make film featuring only women shredders.

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ynsey Dyer remembers the late nights at the Warren Miller films she attended with her parents while growing up in Sun Valley, Idaho.

She remembers the sense of community, people coming together because of a shared love of powder, something she already felt as a child. But she also remembers having the thought that almost every young skier-girl has when she sees her first ski movie: Where are the girls?

In the years since Dyer grew up, became a professional freeskier, moved to Jackson and even landed roles in the kind of films she watched as a child, that hasn’t changed: The films are dominated by men.

So she decided to do something about it.

“Pretty Faces,” a new ski movie Dyer produced, is the first all-female ski film. It will be screened in at the Pink Garter Theatre at 7 p.m. Friday.

Most female roles in ski movies make the few women cast compete with the men or play a bimbo or sex object, Dyer said. There weren’t films showing what most real skier-girls are like. They tackle hard lines, push the limits and risk their lives but also dance in the car and joke with friends.

“No one had capitalized or celebrated what it means to be a female in the mountains,” Dyer said.

About three years ago she put together some unused footage of women skiing and made a twominute short film. In a couple of days it had hundreds of thousands of views online, showing Dyer she wasn’t the only one with a desire to see more women skiing.

Dyer has always been interested in showcasing women athletes and inspiring the next generation of female skiers and outdoor enthusiasts. In 2006 she started She Jumps as a way to encourage more girls to get outdoors.

“We wanted to make a team out of the individual sport of skiing,” Dyer said. “We wanted to make it more inclusive and community-focused so that girls could feel more comfortable and supported in a learning environment.”

Dyer always wished something like the organization had existed when she started skiing.

“I would have seen that ‘if she can do it then so can I,’” she said.

Dyer grew up in Sun Valley, born to parents who met on the mountain. She started ski racing and

“Pretty Faces” is Lynsey Dyer’s production. She is one of the country’s best freeskiers and was tired of the lack of female representation in ski movies.

“If I didn’t do it no one else would,” she said.

even won a Junior Olympics. When she was 16 years old she was ranked No. 2 in the nation in the Super G. But her heart was never in speed competition. She wanted to ski powder. She wanted to ski the lines she’d seen in ski movies growing up.

After finishing college on a ski and art scholarship and finding herself unhappy in an office job, Dyer returned to the mountains, this time skiing what she wanted and the way she wanted.

In her first year competing in freeskiing she won seven events and took the tour title. She built a name for herself, which allowed her to leave competition behind. She’s since appeared in 17 ski movies, including three Teton Gravity Research and five Warren Miller films.

As an extreme skier that’s the dream: to be in

these films, she said. While the experience has been amazing, roles for women are limited, with no opportunity to show what it really means to be a woman skiing big lines in the mountains.

No one wanted to touch an all-female movie.

There were no statistics to show that people would watch such a film and or that it would make money. But after Dyer saw the interest in the short clip she’d made online she decided she’d do it herself.

“If I didn’t do it no one else would,” she said.

Through Kickstarter she raised more than $100,000, the most successful campaign for an action sports movie to date.

Dyer took on the role of producer and learned the ropes of making a film on the job. She wanted to create a movie that reflected her experience as a skier and resonated universally.

The project wasn’t about creating an outlet for her to ski — her time on the snow came second last year to working on the movie — but about giving back to the ski community by inspiring the next generation of female athletes.

The film features crowd-sourced footage capturing everything from young girls learning to ski to some of the best athletes in the world showcasing their skills.

“That’s the thing I’m most proud of,” Dyer said.

“This reflects the community while still showcasing the highest level of women shredding.”

The movie has epic skiing from Utah to Alaska to Canada but also pranks, jokes and dancing in the car.

Dyer thinks the film is already making a difference in how the ski industry views female athletes. Industry officials took notice of how the public funded the film and of the wide range support it has received. Doubters have expressed surprise at the level of skiing in the movie.

“There’s been a massive shift across the board,” Dyer said. “It’s created a trend because we’ve been so loud.”

She hopes that the momentum of the movie continues and that more women are featured in future ski movies. But she also hopes people watch “Pretty Faces” the way they do a Warren Miller film: as community of rowdy people gathering for a night to share a passion.

“It’s that feeling of going down a powder field,” she said. “It’s that thing the rest of the world doesn’t understand. It doesn’t fit into the societal rules of go to school, get good grades, get a good job and more money to climb the social ladder.”

It’s something only skiers — male or female — understand.

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own thing Continued from 16

More than a few people go exploring in the woods and think, “Wouldn’t it be cool if …” Hatch said.

They head back to their garages and build prototypes to give to their friends and family, and eventually they have a business.

“At first I thought there were dozens of these kinds of businesses,” Hatch said. “Now I realize there are hundreds.”

Now her business uses the Internet to create awareness and help develop the many garage-grown gear businesses building better tents, rafts, clothing, bikes and skis.

TravelStorysGPS Hatch’s business has a distinct Jackson flavor to it, as does TravelStorysGPS. The new app acts as a personal tour guide, spouting local information just like a friend pointing out the window of a car and explaining the landscape.

“The trick was trying to get all the content to really present in a relevant way,” Madi Quissek said.

“I’m looking at something that might be interesting I want to hear about right now.”

The idea came to company CEO Story Clark while she was consulting with a land trust in South Carolina.

People were driving through the protected lands every day without any idea what was there or why it was worth protecting, Quissek said.

Many organizations and nonprofits struggle to get their stories out.

They could go to an app developer, but that would cost tens of thousands of dollars. Creating a shared platform spreads the development cost out for the organizations using it and creates opportunities for cross promotion, Quissek said.

She was a self-taught network engineer. When her company closed she took advantage of government

re-education funding and went to Brigham Young University-Idaho for programming.

Clark approached Quissek with the idea, and she had the time to devote to the project.

“I started developing what I thought would be a prototype,” Quissek said.

She didn’t expect it to work the way she wanted it to. But she started building everything in, and now the app is up and running.

“Grand Teton National Park was perfect,” Quissek said. “It had to work in very remote settings, and we were able to put together all the elements we wanted.”

The park provided sponsorship funding for the app in exchange for being the test ground.

The company has recorded stories for Jackson Hole Airport, the Jackson Hole Historical Society and the Jackson Hole Land Trust.

With dozens of great Teton stories on the app, TravelStorys is growing and expanding and starting to branch outside the community. The company is recording stories for WyoHistory about the eastern Wyoming Indian Wars and for the land trust in North Carolina that inspired the whole project. It’s growing.

The company has six full-time employees, Quissek said. They’re all in Jackson Hole.

“There’s a lot more in the pipeline for us,” Quissek said.

While women-owned businesses capture only 13 percent of venture capital and 20 percent of angel investments nationally, women-run companies in Jackson are thriving.

“At least half the people involved through Silicon Couloir are women,” Moats said. “I would guess the ratio is higher here than it is in a lot of other places. I think it might be because it takes a bit of bravery and tenacity to move to Jackson in the first place.

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Doing their own thing

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By Amanda H. Miller

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tech start-up might sound like the kind of thing unshaven dudes in glasses would create in a suburban garage somewhere, but a few Jackson women have founded promising businesses that could change the way people shop for outdoor gear and experience new places.

TravelStorysGPS, an app that allows visitors to hear podcasts about historic sites and national parks, and Garage Grown Gear, which creates an online marketplace for the world’s most inventive and leastknown outdoor gadgets, are two locally incubated women-owned businesses with bright futures.

While they are the first tech-driven and womenrun startups, Silicon Couloir founder Liza Millett said there are likely to be more on their heels.

“We have our third Startup Institute class starting, and it’s another full class of super-interesting people doing super-interesting things,” Millett said.

Infrastructure for local entrepreneurs is developing and the opportunities are growing.

“I think a lot of us were getting tired of talking about skiing,” Millett said.

Many of her friends moved away because they couldn’t find meaningful work in Jackson.

With more than a decade of trading experience on Wall Street and a Master of Business Administration under her belt, Millett felt there should be more opportunity in Jackson.

“When my daughter grows up I want her to have the option to stay in Jackson without having to work in the hospitality industry,” Millett said.

“We knew the talent was here. So, we decided we wanted to try to create the jobs.”

Silicon Couloir was born with start-up meetings at the Rose.

“You can show up with an idea scribbled on the back of a napkin and see where it goes,” said Charlotte Moats, executive director of Silicon Couloir.

From there ideas are nurtured, and company founders have the opportunity to participate in the

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Amy Hatch is the owner of Jackson Hole Packraft and also of an outdoor gear marketplace, Garage Grown Gear. “I’ve always had an entrepreneurial streak,” she said.

Startup Institute, a 10-week intensive course that gives a class of 15 entrepreneurs the education, support and environment to succeed.

After an idea has legs Silicon Couloir helps entrepreneurs get the funding they need to stand on their own. Six companies have the chance to present to potential investors at Pitch Night.

Garage Grown Gear The Silicon Couloir infrastructure helped Amy Hatch get her start with Garage Grown Gear. She participated in the first Startup Institute and has since created a successful online magazine. She’s scheduled to launch her e-commerce site this month.

“I’ve always had an entrepreneurial streak,” Hatch said. “I have a notebook full of business ideas.”

Hatch developed a packraft business after wishing for a raft she could carry into the backcountry.

“It completely changes the way you look at a map when you can pack a raft into the backcountry, paddle and then pack it over another ridge and paddle again,” Hatch said.

She began renting rafts out. She ran her business out of her garage and started to become more and more aware of other garage-grown gear businesses like her own.

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mogul found a network of people who have found themselves on a spiritual path. Wanting to make it easy for Jackson spiritualists to connect, Eddy started the Teton Spirit Connection magazine, a resource for people to discover the area’s holistic wellness scene.

Eddy said Jackson is a potent energy center.

“Teton Spirit Connection is about expanding our consciousness and opening ourselves to this powerful energy that pervades in our area,” she wrote in the magazine’s first issue.

Carol Mann Mann is also a part of Teton Spirit Connection and contributes to the magazine. Her articles discuss the transcendent side of the valley.

“It is very interdimensional here,” Mann said. “You have high altitude, a lot of clarity in the physical air and beyond.”

Mann calls herself a soul reader.

She looks into people’s past lives to discover purposes for their present.

“All I need to know is a person’s name,” she said. “I don’t even need to meet them. I sometimes joke and call it my cosmic Google.”

When Mann uses her clairvoyant power to discover where someone’s soul has been, she feels she is solving the world’s most compelling detective story.

She said the best part of her work is helping clients explain why they behave the way they do.

During one reading she found out why a teen had issues with authority.

“When I tuned into him I realized his lifetime prior to this one was in Vietnam and he had been shot down and killed in the Vietnam War,” Mann said.

Worried his spirit’s past experiences would upset the boy, Mann wasn’t sure how to begin the conversation.

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For a while, she was able to do that with her radio show “Cosmic Cafe.”

Now her business, which shares the same name, focuses on soul readings.

Thanks to the Internet, Mann can give readings over Skype.

People drawn to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem fit into the bigger picture. Their souls are a part of the area’s cosmic pull, she said.

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Tuning in to valley’s spiritual side

High altitude, high vibrations attract questers and metaphysicians.

sessions at Intencions, Botur facilitates a women’s circle. Named after the Sanskrit symbol for “divine play,” the Lela Circle is a group of women who come together to share their experiences.

Each time members meet they focus on a different theme.

At every Lela Circle, Botur plays her sound bowls. In fact, she has many uses for her instruments. Before making her crystal bracelets and necklaces, she uses the bowls to bless her jewelry.

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ubbling hot springs, a turbulent tributary and a rippling string of mountains: The prodigal nature of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is undeniable.

Given the landscape’s concoction of phenomenal geology, it is easy to understand why the region attracts people from across the globe.

Each summer experienced mountain climbers, extreme kayakers and tactical fly-fishers journey to the fantastical ecosystem to soak in its splendid environment.

But outdoors enthusiasts aren’t the only people drawn to the valley and its wildlife. Others choose to call Jackson home because of its metaphysical properties.

To women such as Daniela Botur, Samantha Eddy and Carol Mann, greater Yellowstone is spirituality’s primordial soup. They believe the climate contains elements that awaken each person’s divine quest.

Daniela Botur “People have said Jackson is the heart chakra of the Earth,” Botur said. “Its nature is an entry into spirituality.”

Co-owner of Intencions Gallery in Jackson, Botur expresses her celestial nature with practices designed to facilitate a collective consciousness.

From noon to 1 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and from 5 to 6 p.m. Wednesdays she brings people to a oneness state of mind with the Crystal Sound

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Daniela Botur of Intencions Gallery offers a Crystal Sound Bowl Experience.

She tunes the bowls’ sound to harmonize with a chakra — a point of spiritual energy in the body — to bring participants’ bodies into a balanced frequency.

Bowl Experience at the gallery.

“The crystal sound bowls are a way to create a high vibration and intention-setting for a large group,” Botur said. “It’s something everyone experiences at the same time.”

During Intencions’ designated times of meditation Botur creates a sacred space with aromatherapy, calming lavender pillows, flower-infused water and singing sound bowls.

Before participants assume shavasana, the “corpse pose” in yoga, they are asked to identify the chakra they want to focus on.

When the root chakra is out of balance it leads to an unfocused mind, mental lethargy and an inability to stay still. An unstable throat chakra blocks creativity and the ability to express emotions. The list goes on.

Botur feels the sound bowls’ vibrations bring the body to a balanced and higher frequency. When she plays a certain key she harmonizes a selected chakra or system. For instance, when she plays in the key of F she is focusing on the heart chakra, hoping to ail melancholia, codependency and the fear of loneliness.

“When we have illnesses and things along those lines we are in a frequency that is no longer in harmony,” she said.

Setting her own objectives when she plays, Botur puts paper messages in her crystal sound bowls.

“If you place an archetype, color or intention inside the bowl you are actually going to drive those benefits,” she said. “Your intention is greater than anything else.”

In addition to leading meditation

Samantha Eddy Like Botur, Eddy is fascinated with the power of crystals. Her bookstore in Wilson, Spirit, has an entire shelf of gems and stones.

At Spirit patrons can purchase rose quartz, the stone of unconditional love. They can pick up citrine to inspire enthusiasm or amethyst to provide spiritual awareness.

While the space carries so-called “New Age” items, the store’s theme was not designed to deter the average person from visiting.

“My intention is not for it to be this scary, patchouli-smelling Wiccan store,” Eddy said.

Browsing through the bookstore and gift shop one can find the Bible, Tarot cards, locally made jewelry and an edition of the Hindu epic “The Mahabharata” on the store’s shelves.

In addition to owning a bookstore Eddy leads one-on-one meditation sessions.

“I am acting as a facilitator, helping people get in touch with the inner truth of their being,” Eddy said.

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Building strong networks Wine, lunch, champagne help break the ice when meeting new people.

By Amanda H. Miller

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ackson is a small town, but there’s always someone new to meet.

And opportunities tend to unfold in front of the women who take advantage of networking occasions.

“Alumnae of our program have successfully campaigned for elected office, negotiated raises and promotions at work and started their own businesses,” said Melissa Turley, executive director of Womentum, a program that matches women mentors and mentees for a ninemonth program every fall. “On the personal side, one mentor introduced her mentee to the man who would become her husband, another mentor worked with her mentee to feel more prepared to navigate having children and staying in the workforce.”

Womentum has been matching women for mentoring programs in Jackson for 10 years, Turley said. The group started as an effort to effect social change for women and make a bigger philanthropic impact locally.

“A joint impact together would make a bigger difference,” Turley said. “And a mentoring program would provide learning and growth for mentors and mentees.”

There are more than 200 local alumnae of the program, and Turley is working to strengthen the alumnae network and create ongoing opportunities for participants to expand their networks.

The program accepts applications every spring. Some women apply to be mentors, and others apply to be men-

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Katharine Conover, left, was Melissa Turley’s mentor in the inaugural class of Womentum, a nonprofit Turley helped found in 2006.

tored. They range in age from 23 to 75 and older.

“Usually the mentors are older than the mentees,” Turley said, “but it doesn’t always work out that way.”

There is some structure to the program, but it also allows the women to build their own dynamics. Often, Turley said, the mentees do as much mentoring as the mentors.

Womentum, while one of the more structured and well-known women’s networking programs in Jackson, is just one of several networking opportunities that exist in the Tetons.

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Women who Wine started in a shared living room.

“I had just moved into a new townhome with two random roommates,” said Realtor Katie Colbert. “We didn’t know each other and we didn’t know each other’s friends.”

They got everyone together and had so much fun that they started hosting parties at a different house every month where everyone was tasked with inviting someone new.

“We’ve since grown out of living rooms,” Colbert said.

Now the group meets at local womenowned or -run businesses.

“It’s kind of a win-win,” Colbert said.

“We can help these women promote their businesses, and it’s easier for people to show up at a business when they don’t know a lot of people than it is to go into a stranger’s house.”

Since January 2012, Women who Wine has grown and grown. Every lady who attends brings a bottle of wine. The hostess provides snacks and any leftover wine is left behind for the hostess.

One of the group’s biggest events is at Bin 22, which hosts a wine tasting event for the women. That one falls outside of the usual formula.

After two and a half years there are more than 200 women on Colbert’s email list and most events draw 15 to 20 ladies. The biggest ones have 50 women in attendance.

“And still, when I look around, at least a third of the women who come are new,” Colbert said.

Women’s Business Roundtable luncheons happen statewide and are supported by a grant from the Wyoming Women’s Business Center and the Small Business Administration.

The educational events happen once a month, nine months out of the year. July, August and December are the months off because they’re busy times when people are traveling or preparing for the holidays.

Colbert is co-chairwoman for the Roundtable as well. It hosts business development forums and directs discussions about business issues for Wyoming women, she said.

It’s much more structured than Women who Wine events but still provides plenty of time for networking and social interaction.

“I think as women it’s important to support other women and their businesses,” Colbert said. “These events provide opportunities to connect, exchange numbers and share business cards.”

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A better way to handle rape

Nurse eases victims through process of collecting evidence.

By Jason Suder

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t’s not your fault. That’s the first thing a SANE nurse tells a victim of sexual assault.

It was not always like that. Cheryl Hewitt, a graduate of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program who works at St. John’s Medical Center, remembers a time before Teton County Victim Services and the Community Safety Network, a time when physicians still asked the wrong questions.

The U.S. averages one attack every two minutes. That’s about half the rate in 1993, but the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network estimates only about 40 percent are reported to the police.

“It used to be the victim was brutalized,” Hewitt said. “’Did you wear the wrong clothes?’ ‘Did you act the wrong way?’ ‘Were you drinking?’ and that kind of thing. That culture has finally changed so that a woman is a victim or a man is a victim.”

Today a person who walks into the emergency room to report a sexual assault is immediately brought to a private room for an objective examination. No matter what, Hewitt said, if a victim says “assault” then “that’s the way it is.

“There are no ifs, ands or buts.”

Hewitt graduated from Junior College of Albany’s nursing program in 1981. She practiced in Florida for 15 years, moving from pediatric ICU to the burn unit to surgical ICU before finding her calling in the emergency department.

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ization at the time, but after working with a few victims Hewitt began to understand the shortcomings of the process.

“I realized we were doing a kind of disservice to the victims,” she said.

“We weren’t getting the right kind of evidence, and there wasn’t someone following them throughout the process the entire way.”

She enrolled in a SANE program out of Virginia. It included 90 hours of training with police and counselors and in courtrooms to ensure victims under her watch received the right kind of treatment.

“We really needed somebody that was willing to specialize and provide support,” she said.

Today a protocol is in place. A victim who walks into the ER to report an assault is taken to a private room.

Her physical wounds will be treated first, and then a sexual assault examination can be conducted.

“Their physical safety is of the utmost importance,” Hewitt said. “We make sure that those injuries are taken care of so we’re treating the whole person.”

According to national statistics, 97 percent of perpetrators never spend a

day in jail.

Wyoming equips hospitals with sealed biological evidence collection kits that can be used to help prosecute rapists.

The state offers a blind report, which identifies the victim by case number rather than by name. There is a one-year statute of limitations to use the exam results as legal evidence. Other than the medical bill for treating injuries the exam is free and does not appear on insurance claims.

Step one is consent. The exam is not mandatory, and the victim has to give her approval. Clothing will be taken as evidence, debris and body stains collected, head and pubic hair combed for foreign material or hairs, and reproductive areas and fingernails swabbed for DNA. Because many forms of evidence are taken and some are timely, Hewitt urges victims to immediately go to the ER. With blind reporting the victim does not need to disclose her name and will be able to decide how to prosecute over the course of a year.

But time is of the essence after an assault: “Don’t bathe,” Hewitt said.

“Don’t shower [or] brush your teeth Don’t change your clothes. Come in right away.”

Caring for assault victims takes its toll on nurses. Hewitt deals with it by camping and riding horses. But she keeps coming back to the job. The key, she said, is to return control to the victim.

“It’s not their fault. I think that has to be the most important piece of the puzzle,” she said. “When I’m doing your exam you have total control.

“You don’t want to do something?

We’ll stop. You want a break, we’ll stop. I’ll sit here with you because we have to preserve the chain of evidence. ... This is your time.”

Volunteer army wages war on abuse

Community Safety Network has many ways to help.

By Cherise Forno

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ach year Community Safety Network provides support, advocacy and shelter to hundreds of people affected by domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking in Teton County.

Volunteers are central to the organization. They serve the center in many ways including operating a 24-hour hot line, 733-SAFE. “Our advocates play a huge role with connecting with our clients,” said Shannon Nichols, director of education and outreach at Community Safety Network.

Anyone can call the center to ask questions, have someone listen to them, learn the warning signs of abuse or get information on services available through the Community Safety Network and other organizations.

“All of our services are free of charge and confidential,” Nichols said.

Volunteers and employees are trained to help people take the next step in their lives. Nichols said there is no judgment associated with Community Safety Network’s services, nor is there pressure to make certain decisions, such as to leave a relationship.

“We try to be responsive to the people’s needs and what they are asking for,” she said.

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Community Safety Network will host events this month to educate people about domestic violence.

• Today and Thursday: Lundy Bancroft Training for law enforcement, victim advocates and legal professionals in Riverton.

• Today: Community Book Club: ‘Crazy Love,’ by Leslie Morgan Steiner. Get a free copy at Teton County Library.

• Saturday to Oct. 30: CSN volunteer advocate training. Call 733-3711 for details.

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RSVP to Shannon at 733-3711.

To cater to each individual’s needs, volunteers who interact with clients are trained in more than the signs and dynamics of abuse.

They learn about domestic violence laws and available resources and are coached in how to be confident, empathetic listeners.

Volunteers typically commit to be available for two call line shifts a month, taking phone calls from their home phone or cellphone. A backup paid staff member is also scheduled, so help is available 24 hours a day.

For anyone interested in becoming a volunteer advocate, a new training session begins this Saturday.

Nichols said Community Safety Network looks for men and women from all types of backgrounds to serve as volunteer advocates. It has several Spanish-speaking volunteers and one paid bilingual staff member.

“We really try to reach out to people and provide ser-

• Oct. 27 9 a.m.-noon: ‘Domestic Violence and the Legal System,’ co-sponsored with Access to Justice.

Three hours of continuing legal education training offered to legal professionals.

• Oct. 26 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m.: ‘Domestic Violence and the Faith Community’ session on the dynamics of domestic violence and the ramifications for individuals, the church and the Christian community. St. John’s Episcopal Church. RSVP: 733-3711.

• Oct. 30 9 a.m.-noon: ‘Domestic Violence, Trauma and Mental Health.’ Free training for mental health professionals. Hansen Hall. RSVP: 733-3711.

vices in their primary language,” Nichols said.

But the most important part of being an advocate, she said, is being able to help people affected by abuse and to support them in the next phase of their lives.

Laura Kelly Hedges volunteered for three years before becoming a Safety Network employee in 2006. After accepting a job at the hospital this year Hedges returned to working with domestic abuse victims as a volunteer.

“The program has always been a passion of mine, so I’m excited to be back in that role,” she said.

Although staffing the hotline is an important volunteer role, Hedges said other volunteer opportunities are available for people who aren’t comfortable with that work or may not have the time to commit to it.

The network also needs help raising money, organizing events and spreading awareness.

The training is useful in life outside volunteer work, Hedges said. She recommends that people go through the training even if they don’t plan to become a volunteer advocate.

“The knowledge gained going through the volunteer advocate training is invaluable,” Hedges said.

Through the training people learn how to help when they witness an argument that has the potential to escalate into violence. Hedges said these skills can be used in everyday life to assist friends, family, strangers and co-workers.

Another way Hedges volunteers is by providing relief to shelter managers during nights and weekends.

The Newton House of Hope is a shelter that houses as many as six victims of abuse and their family. During that time the Community Safety Network offers many services. First and foremost, it provides a place of safety

and healing with emotional and financial support and the tools needed to get people back on their feet.

That includes helping individuals find a job and a permanent place to live and learn to use other resources in the community, such as those offered by Climb, which trains and places single mothers in jobs that can support their families.

Without undergoing the 40-hour advocacy training program people can volunteer in other ways, including being a shelter chef for the Newton House of Hope. Volunteers can sign up to prepare meals for people in the shelter or support groups.

The Safety Network also fights domestic violence through education. Training sessions teach teens and adults on the warning signs and how to help (see box on this page).

The Community Safety Network’s Facebook page has information about classes and events.

Fighting domestic violence and sexual assault is a group effort, Nichols said, and everybody can help.

“We each have a role to play for helping victims of abuse,” she said.

The Community Safety Network’s services are available to all adult victims — male and female — of sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking.

“We serve all people,” she said. “People don’t have to be in crisis to reach out.”

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Bikini bodies tested for strength

Three valley women take the leap into bodybuilding.

By Clark Forster

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eing judged is oftentimes an uncomfortable feeling.

Being judged in a bikini is a whole different level of discomfort that can make some women turn green. Literally.

“As you get nervous the tan will turn green,” fitness coach Patricia Moeller said.

“There’s self-soothing you gotta do, because your armpits will turn green.”

Spray tans, 4-inch heels, posing lessons and a cow’s worth of protein are all part of the game when it comes to bikini and figure contests.

Many women can’t bear the thought of being onstage and baring their bodies in front of critical judges. But three brave Jackson women decided last fall to take the plunge into the world of bodybuilding.

The fears they thought they might have were methodically worked away with hundreds of hours of sweat and dieting.

“I’ve done Tough Mudders, sprint triathlons, half marathons, but I’ve never trained as hard as I did for those as I did for this,” Arianne Feurer said. “It’s as much, if not more, work than other athletes put into their sport.”

Moeller, Feurer and Jo Mackey spent their fall and spring getting in shape for a

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They trained vigorously, chowed down like football players, dieted like jockeys and hired a coach to teach them how to pose. The end result was success for the three firsttime bodybuilders.

“We all did really well,” Feurer said. “I got first, which was really shocking but awesome.”

Along with Feurer’s win in the bikini competition, Mackey placed fourth and Moeller placed second and third in two

divisions of the figure category.

The success didn’t come easy, though.

“You have to weight-lift, do cardio and eat super clean for a very long time in order to look like those women who look really good onstage,” Moeller said.

The owner of the fitness coaching business Beautiful and Lean, Moeller decided in September 2013 she was ready to take the plunge and bare herself to the world in a contest.

A bold move like that, though,

required some company.

“I put an ad in the bathroom at Bell Fitness to see if anybody wanted to enter a bikini contest with me, and those two girls decided they wanted to do it,” Moeller said.

Feurer and Mackey began training with Moeller in December. They strength-trained seven days a week in the beginning as they tried to pack on muscle for the show.

They lifted like men and ate like horses, taking in their body weight each day in grams of protein. Once the initial muscle was put on, they added cardio to their regimen.

Four sessions of strength training and four sessions of cardio a week took everything out of them.

“I was so tired,” Mackey said. “On my days off, when I didn’t have to go to the gym, I would literally get home from work at 5 o’clock after getting there at 6 in the morning and go straight to bed.”

As the competition grew closer the women did what they could to shed fat to show off their newfound muscles.

“In March we all started to go on a depletion diet,” Moeller said. “I drank a bunch of salt water two days before the show. Kind of like basting a turkey. You kind of want the turkey to plump up so you put in salt water.”

Diets consisted of low-calorie, high-protein, low-carb routines that helped eliminate the last bit of fat that any normal athlete would hardly notice.

Once the bodies were ready, then came the pageantry.

The women wore sequined bikinis that cost $170 to $500.

They took posing lessons over the Internet via Skype for $1 a minute. They got their hair and makeup done for $100. It was all in the name of putting finishing touches on half a year of hard work.

“It’s very expensive,” Moeller said. “They say to estimate around $1,500 to $2,000 every show if it’s your first show.”

The dieting, the countless hours in the gym and the money paid off on competition day. And the preparation gave the women little reason to be nervous.

“I went out and worked my ass off for months, and it was like I was showing them the work I had done instead of my body,” Feurer said.

The accomplishment was gratifying.

“It was kind of crazy,” Mackey said. “I didn’t think about what I was about to do until a month before, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, what have I signed myself up for?’

In the end I absolutely enjoyed the journey and the transformation and enjoying it with my friends.”

Bikini and figure competitions are only for a select, confident, dedicated few.

They are the perfect events for mountain town women.

“This is a sport,” Moeller said. “It’s not about losing weight and looking great in a bikini. There’s so much more to it.”

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Her sister, Mary Margaret, who inspired the business, spent the summer helping with packing and shipping, and may have been relieved at the chance to return to class this fall, she said.

The company is also a tribute to Grassell’s sister Caroline, who died at age 5 after stepping off a decorated parade float.

On her website Grassell explains the relationship between her sister’s death and her own gradual realization that life — and adolescence — is short and there should be no added pressure for girls to grow up too fast.

Although she founded the company, came up with the designs and muscled through the tremendous challenges of starting a business before many teens even have their first job, Grassell is well aware of how much help she has had — and how much she had to learn

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“I spent a lot of time in the library,” she said of her early days starting the firm, and her family was invaluable in teaching her facets of business she did not know.

Then there were professional mentors whose wisdom inspired her.

At first, she said, “I didn’t really understand how important those people would be.”

While the future is neither clear nor assured for the 2-year-old company and its 19-year-old owner, the coming year will be a time for Grassell to chart her course in a valley where she acknowledges there won’t be a lot of people her age.

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That rate is the country’s second worst. Wyoming is 50th, ahead only of 51st-place Louisiana, where women earn 66 percent of what men do.

In Teton County women are closer to men than in many other places in the state. Jackson Hole women earn about $29,000 annually, while men bring in $41,000, according to Wyoming Women’s Foundation. That equates to women earning about 70 cents for each dollar made by men.

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But all of that history doesn’t appear to translate into equal pay today.

The causes are complex, said Melissa Turley, a Teton County commissioner. Wyoming has a high proportion of single moms, she said, a population that tends to work minimum-wage jobs.

“Some of it is having family,” said Turley, who is also a leader at the women’s empowerment organization Womentum, “whether it’s taking time off for maternity leave or just the reality of taking time off to take care of children at all.”

Some in the state say the discrepancy is due to the high number of jobs in the male-dominated oil and gas industry so prevalent in Wyoming. Turley said there is some truth to that but discrimination also plays a role.

While the gap between men and women has narrowed slightly in recent years — Wyoming was last in 2012 — community leaders who track such things say the issue still needs to be addressed. That job belongs to legislators, employers and women, Turley said.

Women need to consider what their work is worth and negotiate accordingly, she said.

Some organizations, such as Climb Wyoming, are attempting to help. The nonprofit provides job training for lowincome single mothers. That training often involves jobs such as welding and truck driving, making room for women in popular Wyoming industries that have good starting pay.

“We find that our participants receive really high-level training,” said Shannon Brooks Hamby, statewide director of communication for the organization. “They are really motivated and enjoy certainly the benefits of having a full-time livable salary with benefits for their families.”

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system is performed by women, though the two higher courts are headed by men.

David Baker, the only male circuit court clerk in the state, heads a staff that is otherwise entirely female.

Dee Mahoney heads up an all-female staff in the district court offices.

The county’s main public defender and its court interpreter are women, and the entire victim services office staff is female. And the president of Teton County’s local arm of the Wyoming Bar Association is Erika Nash.

“I don’t think the deciding factor in that decision was any conscious desire to have a female judge.”

– Melissa Owens Jackson municipal court judge

The sole exception to Teton County justice’s female-centric trend is the Teton County Attorney’s Office, one of Owens’ former workplaces, which employs one female attorney on a staff of seven lawyers.

As for the town of Jackson’s municipal court, along with Owens both of the town’s prosecutors and both of the court’s clerks are women.

“I’ve always appreciated that I never felt as though it was an issue in this job,” Town Attorney Audrey Cohen-Davis said. “I never doubted that the council that hired me went based on qualifications, and I’ve always felt respected by the mayors and

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the councils I’ve worked with.”

Part of that, Owens and Cohen-Davis said, is that once you get past any bias the work of being a good lawyer has nothing to do with whether the person is male or female.

“Intelligence has nothing to do with gender,” Owens said. “Thinking fast on your feet, constructing an effective argument — none of that is genderspecific.”

Cohen-Davis has been the town’s attorney for more than 10 years — including during the birth of her children.

Last year the town hired Lea Colasuonno to back her up.

“Both of those decisions were about qualifications,” Cohen-Davis said. “I didn’t deliberately choose to hire Lea because she was a woman. She was the one we felt was most qualified.

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Justice women Justice should be blind to who has what job, court women say.

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ustice, as the old saying goes, is blind.

But in Wyoming it has taken a while for society to shake loose the traditional “old boys’ club” court system.

Finally, however, things are starting to change, said Teton County’s only presiding female judge.

Melissa Owens was appointed to lead Jackson’s municipal court after founding judge Tom Jordan retired in March.

She follows former 9th District Judge Nancy Guthrie as only the second woman to preside over a Teton County court. But she said she is encouraged nonetheless.

“I think you’re starting to see a lot of the ways women are more accepted in the profession show

Jackson Municipal Court Judge Melissa Owens is still getting used to her new robes.

in that we’re getting more women in the positions that require that experience,” Owens said. “You’re seeing a lot of women who’ve had the chance to be highly qualified applying for higher positions, and they’re getting them.”

Owens cited the recent appointment of Justice Kate Fox, formerly of Dubois, to the Wyoming Supreme Court.

She also noted that while Guthrie was among the first female district court judges, women now preside over Wyoming’s felonies and high-dollar lawsuits in Laramie, Sweetwater and Natrona counties. At the circuit court level there are five.

As a percentage that isn’t much — there are 32 district court judges in the state and 24 circuit court judges — but Owens said that as far as she has seen a lot of the things that have stopped wom-

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en from receiving serious consideration in the past are fading.

One of the first considerations when selecting someone to preside over a Wyoming court is the kind of experience she brings to the bench. With barriers bursting in all aspects of the legal profession, from private practice to government work, more and more women are able to offer that experience, Owens said.

“I think we would have had a very competent and qualified judge whether the council chose me or [former interim judge] Bret King,” she said. “I think the council realized that. I don’t think the deciding factor in that decision was any conscious desire to have a female judge.”

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Megan Grassell, founder of Yellowberry bras for girls in their early teens, folds and packages bras in preparation for shipment. The 19-year-old this month was named by Time magazine as one of America’s 25 most influential teens.

Homegrown entrepreneur mulls future

Grassell, founder of Yellowberry, ponders career over college.

By John R. Moses

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any Jackson Hole High School seniors are worried about going to college and finding parttime work as summer ends. But one Jackson Hole teen has an added challenge.

It’s no surprise to anyone who knows Megan Grassell that her problem is unique: Should she run her burgeoning fashion business and go to college in Vermont, or should college wait a bit?

The 19-year-old entrepreneur, named this month by Time magazine as one of the 25 most influential teens of 2014, chose to stay in Jackson to get even more serious about bringing her Yellowberry products into major stores and developing a complete tween fashion line.

While still in high school, Grassell created a line of bras for young girls. Her achievement in getting her Yellowberry products to market has gained her national and international attention. The New York Times in May was just one of many online and print publications to spill real or virtual ink into the story of her growing business successes.

In April she was featured on the “Today” show for her product line, which is a direct response to what she perceives as the over-sexualization of young girls by bra manufacturers.

Her business initially grew through a Kickstarter campaign. Last month she received funding after a pitch to the gathering of the Jackson nonprofit Silicon Couloir.

Public speaking, she said, isn’t her forte.

“I don’t think I’ve ever been so nervous about anything in my life,” she said of the pitch. “I didn’t eat for a week.”

Nervous or not her presentation to an audience of potential investors — pitched on the stage from which she had recently graduated high school — worked.

Grassell wanted funding to hire an experienced CEO as well as a public relations firm to handle the marketing duties she has been doing herself.

Now the business has moved from

a garage to an office in Wilson, Yellowberry will begin in earnest to test its boundaries.

Grassell founded her business on bras she designed for young girls whose alternatives in the market were, she felt, either smaller versions of bras for older, more developed bodies or too risque for the age group.

Yellowberry has also developed tote bags, but Grassell doesn’t want to stop there. She would like to sell a full line of clothing, and she wants to see her products hanging in major stores through an expansion of her retail and wholesale accounts.

But expansion will come “one wave at a time,” Grassell said. “I don’t know the limits of Yellowberry, and I don’t really want to put any on it.”

With high school over and her business growing, Grassell is defining personal and professional goals.

On the business side, there’s her push to get through the door and take the company from being only a direct consumer retail business to one that also sells to wholesalers and has clothes in retail stores.

The funding she received should help that effort if a seasoned professional and PR team can improve the business and its visibility.

“I’m going to use that capital to grow very strategically,” she said.

As for her personal life, when she decides to go off to college in Middlebury, Vermont, is “dependent on Yellowberry.”

“I’m taking a year off and enjoying being my age,” Grassell said.

But taking a gap year from school is hardly the same as taking a year off from work. While a couple of personal trips may be in her future, Grassell is focused on her company.

“It’s going really well,” she said, adding her average day includes “a little bit and a lot of everything. It’s really a fun thing, but it’s different every day.”

Having a formal office is a good thing, she said, as there aren’t bras all over the house awaiting shipping.

While the business is no longer operated from her family’s home, Yellowberry is still very much a family business. Her parents, Linn and Chopper Grassell, are involved.

“My mom is my partner in the business now,” she said, “and my dad understands the numbers.”

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Turley serves as coordinator and a Continued from 3 board member for Womentum, a nongranted until being confronted with profit that aims to “release the genius news of people trying to restrict abor- and ambition of the individual woman.” tion in states around the country.

In addition to serving on the county “We shouldn’t have to constantly commission, Turley runs a nonprofit fight this fight,” Holmes said. consulting business and is a mother.

Holmes tries to teach her two young Juggling work, public service, fitness sons to respect women and girls, she and family is tough, she said.

“Some weeks I feel like I’m the said.

“They play with little girls,” she world’s best mom,” Turley said, “but said. “They know what little girls are those are usually the same weeks I fall behind with work or had to recapable of.”

When a woman chooses to have schedule a meeting with a constituent more than once.” children, Holmes To stay healthy, said, she’s faced she teaches classwith a host of es at Revolution choices, and caIndoor Cycling, reer is only one mixing her own piece of the puzworkout with zle. After several work, and counts years working in herself lucky if public relations, she gets out for a Holmes took time bike ride outdoors off to have her – Katie Shackelford Holmes once a week. children and now Mother, feminist This summer, works in outdoor Turley said she gear sales so she made a choice to can spend more work fewer hours time with them.

“Just because you stay home so she could spend more time with her doesn’t mean you want equality any son before he began kindergarten this less,” Holmes said. “I know we’ve fall.

“It meant paying the bills was come so, so far, but I’m sorry, it’s not harder than usual,” Turley said, “but far enough. Not yet.”

Men need to be part of the force of that added economic stress was worth it to me compared with the invaluable feminists, too, Holmes said.

“I think that we need more men — time and experiences we were able to strong, kind men — standing beside share.”

Having the ability to make those us and speaking with us,” Holmes said. “I hope that the next generation choices about child rearing vs. career of feminists continues to grow, and is something Turley wishes for all I hope that my boys are included in women.

An equal world would be one in that! Equality should not be something that has to be fought for, but it which “women ran half our countries also should not be something that we and companies and men ran half our homes,” Turley said, quoting Sheryl take for granted.”

Women today continue to advocate, Sandberg from her book “Lean In.” “For me,” Turley said, “it’s about Turley said, for equal pay and “equal representation, respect and a society defining what I want and why it’s imthat values women’s contributions as portant.”

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Abortion protester Debbie Baker, right, of Wichita, Kansas, tries to talk with counterprotester Talia Smith, of Jackson, outside the Powderhorn Mall in May 2011. Smith chose not to respond. Several abortion opponents, led by Spirit One Ministries in Wichita, protested in 2011 and 2012 in Jackson.

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Today’s feminists seek balance, still fight for reproductive rights.

By Johanna Love

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omen in Wyoming today can vote, play sports and work at any job a man can. Female students outnumber male ones at the University of Wyoming. Almost 20 percent of the state’s legislators are women.

So what’s left to fight for? Do we still need feminism?

Absolutely, women say.

“Inequality between genders still exists today in America and around the world,” said Teton County Commissioner Melissa Turley. “Addressing gender inequality makes our economy better, our society better, our politics, country and world better.”

Perhaps there’s some confusion about the meaning of the word. It’s pretty simple, Turley said: “Anyone who believes in the political, economic and social equality of the sexes is a feminist.”

Feminism, Jackson resident Katie Shackelford Holmes said, “has a negative connotation sometimes.”

Most importantly, Holmes said, a feminist is one who speaks up for oth-

er women.

“I’m a strong woman, not afraid to give my opinions,” Holmes said, “and I feel my opinion is valued and needed in this world.”

One of the biggest battles is one that hasn’t gone away since the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1973’s Roe v. Wade that women should be able to control their own bodies.

Because of her belief in reproductive rights, Holmes has volunteered for Planned Parenthood, playing a large part in organizing a fundraiser in Teton County for the nonprofit.

“My willingness to speak out to have control of my body,” Holmes said, “I do so in hopes the next generation doesn’t have to take up this fight.”

When anti-abortion protesters picketed outside Emerg-a-Care’s clinic in 2011 and 2012, Holmes said she was surprised by the fervor they displayed.

“That’s one piece to the puzzle of what feminism is about,” Holmes said, “but it’s the one thing that constantly comes to the front in most political battles, which I find sad and pathetic. No one’s telling men what they can and can’t do with their bodies in terms of health.”

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