As seen in the Caspar Star-Tribune and the Wyoming Trib. Eagle!

Supported in part by a grant from the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund, a program of the Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources.

WOW has received nationwide praise and attention from professional historians and women’s history organizations including the Daughters of the American Revolution and The Remedial Herstory Project. Learn more here.

Women’s Voices Matter

Women of Wyoming: Then & Now is actively preserving and celebrating the voices of the everyday woman who has made a remarkable impact on the way Wyoming’s history is to be understood. Ultimately, the hosts of this web-based production want the next generation of viewers to feel that history is:

Exciting and Relatable
Worth Preserving
Happening Right Now

The team at WOW believes that the specific experiences, perspectives, and voices of women who make and witness history MATTERS and should be intentionally and responsibly recorded.

I believe women should be able to tell their own stories without a first pass through the filter of a man. It’s as simple as that. We need more women to protect the interpretations of those before us and to continue holding our seat at the table. I look forward to the official launch in 2024!
Janelle Molony, Women of Wyoming Program Director (2022)

Meet The Hosts

“Women of Wyoming, Then and Now” Project Team

Janelle Molony, M.S.L., WoW Program Director, is a nationally celebrated nonfiction author and historian with a special interest in women’s roles in history. She holds a Master of Leadership degree and owns M Press Publishing. She is an active member of Women Writing the West and the Western Writers of America. She is a prolific and multi-award-winning research writer, a contributor to The Tombstone Epitaph, and popularly known as the “Hottie Historian.” Molony has created countless educational videos for national organizations such as the Oregon-California Trails Association and historical societies across the country. Her YouTube series, “Road Tripping Through Iowa Using an Emigrant Trail Diary” was recently nominated for the Loren Horton Community History Award with the State Historical Society of Iowa.

Leslie Waggener, Faculty Archivist at the American Heritage Center (AHC) at the University of Wyoming and former President of the Wyoming Historical Society. Leslie has worked with all types of historical materials in areas of reference, processing, and acquisition. She holds a BA in Anthropology and Archeological Studies and an MLIS from the University of Texas at Austin. She specifically manages the Alan K. Simpson Institute of Western Politics and Leadership collection at the AHC. (The Simpson Institute focuses on the acquisition, preservation, and research use of the papers of prominent individuals, businesses, and organizations that have provided leadership – political, economic, social, and cultural – for Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain West.)

Linda Fabian, Former Executive Director of the Wyoming Historical Society and native Wyomingite. In earlier years, she was the Chief Public Information Officer for the Wyoming Department of State Parks & Cultural Resources and credits that 20-year experience with developing her love of Wyoming’s history. She has co-authored three books: Images of America: Douglas, Cheyenne Frontier Days, and the Wyoming State Capitol Building.

Sylvia Bruner, has worked in the museum field since 2000. As the director of the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum, she guided the museum through re-accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums and receiving the Institute for Museum and Library Services’ National Medal. Bruner serves on the WY State Historic Records Advisory Board and has previously served on the Wyoming Historical Society’s executive committee and helped recharter and run the Johnson County Historical Society chapter. Her first nonfiction history book, Wyoming’s 1943 Bomber Crash, a 2025 release.