Episode Seventeen - Alison Fox - by Russell Rowland

The State of Montana

Episode Seventeen - Alison Fox

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Episode Seventeen - Alison Fox

Chief Executive Officer of the American Prairie

Russell Rowland

Apr 15, 2024

Transcript

Alison Fox was born and raised in a small town in Vermont, and fell in love with Montana when her parents brought the family on a road trip out West when she was twelve. She ended up doing an internship at Glacier Park when she was in college, where she met and fell in love with her husband on the Going to the Sun Road. She has been working for American Prairie since 2007 and was named Chief Executive Officer in 2018.

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Discussion about this episode

The State of Montana

Montana has a long history of very complicated politics, often influenced by major corporations, as with the Copper Kings in our early history, or oil money. But we also have a strong track record of very progressive milestones, the most significant of which was the election of the first woman to ever serve in Congress, Jeanette Rankin. We also have what most constitutional historians consider one of the strongest state constitutions in the country. We have always boasted a very significant balance of power as well, but recently that has changed, and I want to understand why, and what can be done about it. So I'm going to interview some of our more high-profile citizens, not necessarily politicians, to explore this issue. My first guest will be Dorothy Bradley, who was the first woman to run for governor of the state. Dorothy just barely lost to Marc Racicot in 1992.

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