Matthew Copeland has served as WyoFile’s chief executive and editor since 2017. Copeland brings more than two decades of management, professional communications and community engagement experience to the role — more than half of it with Wyoming nonprofits. He is an award-winning writer and editor who began his relationship with WyoFile as a freelance reporter. A native of Charlottesville, Virginia, Matthew studied as a Howard Hughes Scholar of the Life Sciences and competed as a student athlete at Penn State, then served a six-year corporate sentence in the internet technology industry. Upon escape he found his way home to Wyoming where he met his wife, started a family and was thoroughly ruined for a life lived anywhere else. Copeland is an avid hunter, angler and wild-country junkie who believes that facts matter, that integrity is non-negotiable, and that nothing is as powerful as a good story well told. Contact: matthew@wyofile.com
Angus M. Thuermer Jr. reports about natural resources, criminal justice, federal lands, policy and other issues across the state, topics that have engaged him as a Wyoming journalist for the past 37 years. He lives in Jackson and joined WyoFile in the summer of 2014. He reported and photographed for many years for the Jackson Hole News. He was editor of that paper and of the Jackson Hole News&Guide. He served on the board of the Wyoming Press Association and is a past president of that organization. He is co-owner and photographer of the Jackson Hole Ski Atlas, has volunteered as an obituary editor for the American Alpine Journal, and works with the League of Women Voters to host election forums in Teton County. He settled in Jackson in 1978 after a stint as an alpinist, rock climber and Wyoming oilfield roughneck. He graduated from Yale with a BA in English in 1974 after growing up in the Washington, D.C. area and overseas as a Foreign Service brat. He enjoys fly-fishing, photography, skiing, mountaineering, boating, hunting and wilderness travel where the outcome is uncertain. Contact: angus@wyofile.com
Guy V. Padgett serves as WyoFile’s operations director. Padgett has long been involved in public life in Wyoming. During his time in Casper, Padgett served on numerous non-profit boards, volunteered as an election judge, and served on the Casper city council, including a term as mayor. He has worked as an Assistant Curator of Education at the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, as well as the Executive Director of the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra. Padgett is a graduate of the University of Wyoming, and completed a Master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Denver in June of 2011. He currently lives in Denver, Colorado, with his husband and their cat. Contact: guy@wyofile.com
Katie Klingsporn reports on outdoor recreation, public lands and general news for WyoFile. She’s been a journalist and editor covering the American West for 20 years, and has won several regional press awards for her articles. Her freelance work has appeared in National Geographic Adventure, The Colorado Sun, Adventure Journal, 5280 magazine and The Cleanest Line. She lives in Lander with her family. Contact: katie@wyofile.com
Daniel Kenah is WyoFile’s development director. A graduate of Boston College, he was first drawn to Wyoming to work as a ranch hand near Saratoga, and quickly fell in love with mountains, sage and rolling storms. He spent several years in Jackson skiing, rafting and working in customer service, and four years in Lander where he managed grants and major giving for the National Outdoor Leadership School. He currently lives in Sheridan with his partner, where he plays the piano, gardens and cooks. Contact: daniel@wyofile.com
Dustin Bleizeffer is a Report for America Corps member covering energy and climate at WyoFile. He has worked as a coal miner, an oilfield mechanic and for 25 years as a statewide reporter and editor primarily covering the energy industry in Wyoming. He served as MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative Journalism Fellow, John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, communications director for Wyoming Outdoor Council and WyoFile editor-in-chief. He lives in Casper. You can reach him at dustin@wyofile.com and follow him on Twitter @DBleizeffer.
Mike Koshmrl joined WyoFile in 2021 after a decade-long tenure as the Jackson Hole News&Guide’s environmental reporter. A Minnesota native, Koshmrl enlisted in the AmeriCorps helping to teach gradeschoolers in North Minneapolis and then headed west to earn a master’s in journalism at the University of Colorado. He ran through newsrooms around the West as an intern, reporting from places like Summit County, Colorado and Fairbanks, Alaska. Koshmrl fancies himself as an outdoorsman, and enjoys hunting, fishing, floating, skiing, scrambling, hiking and propelling himself into as many new places as he can manage. Contact: mike@wyofile.com.
Maggie Mullen cut her reporting teeth at Wyoming Public Radio, and spent over five years there as an audio reporter and host. During that time, she became a founding reporter for the Mountain West News Bureau, a collaboration between public radio newsrooms across the region. Her work has appeared on NPR, Science Friday, Marketplace, National Native News and PBS NewsHour. Mullen was born and raised in Casper, and lives in Sheridan with her partner. She is most content in the company of their mutt, Moonee, either out for a walk on the prairie, or swimming in Wyoming’s frigid rivers and lakes. Contact: maggie@wyofile.com or @maggiemlln on Twitter.
Rebecca Huntington is WyoFile’s inaugural collaborations editor. She works with local newsrooms around the state to support credible, comprehensive coverage that their communities depend on. Born in Billings, Montana, Huntington earned a journalism degree from the University of Montana in 1995 and has reported for newspapers, radio and television across the West. She moved to Wyoming in 1999 to work for the Jackson Hole Guide and then the Jackson Hole News&Guide, where she has been an environmental reporter, town reporter and managing editor. She created The Fine Line podcast with Teton County Search and Rescue with the aim of reducing backcountry fatalities. She wrote the documentary film, “Far Afield: A Conservation Love Story,” about columnist Bert Raynes, who inspired citizens to care about wildlife in their backyards. Prior to that, she co-wrote another documentary, The Stagecoach Bar: An American Crossroads,” and produced stories for the PBS series This American Land. Huntington enjoys playing in Wyoming’s wide open spaces. Contact: rebecca@wyofile.com.
Joshua Wolfson serves as WyoFile’s managing editor. He’s worked in journalism for more than two decades, first in Northern California and then, after a stint traveling the U.S. and Europe, in Wyoming. He reported primarily on criminal justice and health care for the Casper Star-Tribune and later spent six years as its editor. During his tenure, the paper was named Wyoming’s top daily five times. The son of a petroleum engineer, he bounced around as a kid between Alaska, Los Angeles, Texas and Australia. He loves playing music, listening to music, soul boarding and walking his neighborhood barefoot whenever possible. He and his wife live in Casper with their two kids and a dog that never learned how to fetch.
Tennessee Watson is WyoFile’s deputy managing editor. Before landing in Wyoming, Watson stuck mainly to the east coast, with stints in Cuba and Mexico thrown in there too. She embarked on her own journalism career over a decade ago but both of her parents were journalists so it’s been a part of her life since birth. She’s worked at Wyoming Public Radio, and freelanced for NPR, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, LatinoUSA and The Heart. She won a national Edward R. Murrow Award, was a Peabody Award finalist, and was a 2020 Nieman Fellow at Harvard. She loves running with her dogs Murray and Freddy, dance parties, pineapple on pizza and sailing. Contact: tennessee@wyofile.com
Andrew Graham first came to work for WyoFile in 2016 after getting a master’s degree in journalism at the University of Montana. He worked for the publication until January 2021, when he decamped for a stint at The Press Democrat, a daily newspaper in Northern California. He returned to WyoFile in December 2024 to cover criminal justice issues around the state. Andrew has won awards for his work in both Wyoming and California, including a first-place award in the Best of the West contest, which judges journalism across fourteen western states and Freedom of Information awards in both states. Besides good writing and reporting, he is passionate about skiing and, when he can, surfing. Contact: andrew@wyofile.com
Anna Rader is WyoFile’s engagement editor. As a fifth generation Wyomingite, she was born and raised in Cheyenne and after attending the University of Wyoming, has called Laramie home for the past decade. She was the marketing manager for Latitude Media, a B2B company dedicated to covering the new frontiers of climate technology, working in audience engagement and growth. She also promoted their award-winning podcasts The Carbon Copy, Catalyst with Shayle Kane, and helped promote client podcasts such as Google’s Where The Internet Lives and Columbia University’s The Big Switch. She was the digital media manager at Wyoming Public Media for several years, including being the digital producer for multiple award-winning podcasts at the station: HumaNature, The Modern West, and Carbon Valley. When she’s not geeking out over sci-fi/sci-fantasy pop culture, or playing Dungeons and Dragons, she enjoys being a cinephile, hiking, heading to local breweries, and going to concerts. Contact: annarader@wyofile.com.
Gabi Kilko-Jackson, WyoFile’s membership manager, joined the team in the fall of 2024. After a 20-year career at NOLS, Gabi took the opportunity to work for WyoFile, another nonprofit near and dear to her heart. Hailing from the southern US, Gabi moved to Lander in 1998 looking for adventure. What she found – besides the dreamy mountains and endless hiking opportunities – was a bright welcoming community and a place to call home. She and her husband live in the foothills of the Wind Rivers where they hike or ski most days with a dog or two. She plays cello in the Fremont Symphony Orchestra and spends her summers kneeling in the dirt, caring for her rather too large vegetable garden. Contact: gabi@wyofile.com
Jared Steinman joined the team in the fall of 2024 as WyoFile’s Advancement Officer. Jared graduated from the University of Kentucky and immediately headed west to be closer to mountains, open spaces and the people who enjoy them. Before joining WyoFile, he spent fourteen years working with NOLS, where he was a senior instructor specializing in climbing, mountaineering, winter and medical courses. Most recently, he served as the Talent Acquisition Manager for NOLS Wilderness Medicine. Jared has found a home under the Tetons and enjoys exploring his local public lands by foot or on skis, often trying to keep up with his wife and their dog. Contact: jared@wyofile.com