Jess Johnson

Jess Johnson has spent the last 10 years as the Government Affairs Director for the Wyoming Wildlife Federation and has helped pass policy within the state benefiting migration corridors, hunting opportunity, conservation funding and public land management . She is also a co-founder of Artemis sportswomen, a National Wildlife Federation program aimed at bringing women into hunting and conservation leadership and building out the hunting industry. She advocates on behalf of wildlife and wild places through both state and national policy, using local advocacy and education work to connect hunters to the decisions being made about conservation and wildlife.

Jess grew up the daughter of ranch managers and was lucky enough to live on ranches in some of the most incredible landscapes this country has to offer in Montana, Northern California and Wyoming. She now resides in Lander Wyoming on a small homestead with her 3 dogs, 2 cats, 2 horses, a garden that continually gets bigger than she has time for, and a varying number of chickens. She has a deep appreciation for wildlife and wildlands and is driven by the notion of reciprocity to our natural world. Since moving back to Wyoming 15 years ago she has spent most of her free time exploring public lands as an avid archer, and obsessed sage brush mule deer hunter.