WyoFile

Matthew Copeland brings nearly two decades of management, professional communications and community engagement experience to his role at Wyofile — more than half of it with Wyoming nonprofits. He is an award-winning writer who began his relationship with WyoFile as a freelance reporter. In 2016 he served as WyoFile’s interim editor and was instrumental in rapidly expanding both readership and reader engagement. 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. Matthew is an avid hunter, angler and wild-country junkie who believes that facts matter, integrity is nonnegotiable, and that nothing is as powerful as a good story well told.