Meg Whittenberger

Meg Whittenberger is currently serving as a summer intern with Montana Conservation Voters. Her involvement includes helping with mailings and events, tabling, registering voters, and attending local meetings. She has lived in Billings since she was five and has grown to appreciate the natural beauty of the Last Best Place during the fourteen years that she has called herself a Montanan. She spends as much time as possible outdoors kayaking, hiking, and skiing. Meg got interested in MCV when her dad, an avid fly fisherman and MCV member, showed her an MCV Legislative Scorecard. She found a description of the summer intern program online and was immediately set on spending the summer with the organization.

Meg will be a sophomore at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts this coming fall semester. She is an English major, but also has strong interests in politics, geology, and environmental policy. Meg spends most of her free time at school working as an editor at The Indicator, Amherst College's magazine focused on social and political thought. She is also involved in several student activist groups focused on labor and women's rights, Habitat for Humanity, Resident Counseling, and a tutoring program targeted at disadvantaged students in the local school system. This coming year she hopes to work with a non-profit organization focused on labor rights to create a partnership between a women's garment cooperative in Nicaragua and Amherst College.

Meg is excited for the rest of her time with MCV and is glad to be helping preserve the beauty and well being of Montana. She hopes to learn as much as possible about environmental politics and the operation of non-profit organizations.