Board Members
Chair- Wyoming State Representative Sue Wallis
Sue is the Wyoming State Representative for House District 52, which encompasses the rural outer rim of Campbell County, including the thriving towns of Recluse, Rozet and Wright. Sue serves on the House Revenue and the House Agriculture, State and Public Lands and Water Resources Committees, as well as the Select Committee on Legislative Technology. Sue and her husband Rod McQueary are writers and poets who raise grassfat natural beef, make useful and beautiful things out of silver, stone, native wood, leather and anything else that strikes their fancy on the Wallis Family Ranch on Bitter Creek north of Recluse, WY.
Beckett Hinckley – Vice Chair
Occupation:
Assistant District Attorney – Laramie County District Attorney’s Office, Laramie County, WY
Affiliations & Memberships:
Wyoming County and Prosecuting Attorney’s Association
Wyoming Bar Association
Wyoming Trial Lawyer’s Association
Laramie County Bar Association, former Secretary/Treasurer
Defense Lawyers Association of Wyoming (DLAW)
Cheyenne Frontier Days Public Relations Committee
Kiwanis Club of Cheyenne
Charles Crews
Occupation:
Workforce Training Coordinator for the State of Wyoming, Human Resources Division
Affiliations & Memberships:
American Society of Training and Development
AF Retired Veteran
Martha Ellis – Secretary
Occupation:
Family Farm/Ranch Operation – we run @ 1300 head of cows and calves on the ranch here in Albin and one in LaGrange, WY.
Affiliations & Memberships:
Executive Director of the Albin Educational Foundation
Member of the Albin Baptist Church–church organist
Junior/Senior Sunday School teacher
Church Sunday School Superintendent
Steve Friess – Treasurer
Occupation:
Friess Associates, managers of the Brandywine family of growth stock mutual funds
Affiliations & Memberships:
President – Jackson Hole Institute, Jackson, WY. JHI works to raise awareness among philanthropists of the national K-12 public education crisis and to highlight the power of choice as a tool for improvement.
Trustee – ACE Scholarships, Denver, CO. ACE provides children of low-income families with scholarships to attend private schools.
Board member – Alliance for School Choice, Washington, DC. ASC is the nation’s vanguard organization for promoting, implementing, and enhancing K-12 educational choice. In collaboration with a host of national and state allies, ASC creates opportunities for systemic and sustainable educational reform that puts parents in charge. ASC works to improve our nation’s K-12 education by advancing systemic and sustainable public policy that empowers parents, particularly those in low-income families, to choose the education they determine is best for their children.
Board member – The Gathering, Tyler, TX. The Gathering works to enable donors to enhance their grant-making activities and deepen their commitment to Christian stewardship.
Trustee – The Lynn and Foster Friess Family Foundation, Jackson, WY.
Gene Meir, Fort Washakie High School– Board Member
Amy Edmonds
Kari Cline- Executive Director