About Us

Rhonda Bear

A Claremore, Oklahoma, business owner, Rhonda Bear has dedicated her life to giving women a second chance at life. After spending time in one of Oklahoma's prisons, she realized that everyone deserves another chance at living their life to the fullest. She has created 13 transitional homes for women to better transition back into society. Rhonda is also the founder of She Brews Coffee House, a retail chain which provides opportunities for women reentering into society after struggling with problems like drug addiction. She also works for Standing in the Gap's Women in Transition program.

Mike Crothers

Mike Crothers, chairman and director of the Wyoming Truth, was a Teton county resident for thirteen years. During that time he invested in local businesses and helped them to grow. He also helped found and fund local nonprofits. Prior to moving to Jackson Hole, Mike’s family owned one of the oldest, largest and most successful businesses in downtown Jackson for over 25 years. He continues to invest in and support small businesses in Jackson Hole. Mike was a founding contributor of the not-for-profit Advocates for Multi-Use of Public Lands, which has over 2,000 members and has helped to keep over 170,000 acres, some of the last usable national forest, for local use.

Lindsay Dreis

Lindsay Dreis, a coordinator at the Wyoming Truth, is a law student at the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, in Washington, D.C. Upon graduation, Lindsay plans to pursue a career as a public defender to represent individuals who do not have the means to hire independent legal assistance. Additionally, she hopes to work in policy reform to improve the American criminal justice system. Her passion for criminal defense sparked during her time as an apprentice at a criminal defense firm, Tuckers Solicitors, in London. There, Lindsay assisted barristers with cases involving major felonies, white collar crimes, misdemeanors, police misconduct and public defense. After, Lindsay served as an associate manager on the business development team at the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit that aims to improve the effectiveness of the federal government by collecting and analyzing federal employee engagement data, supporting legislation that improves employee satisfaction and facilitating leadership development programs for a plethora of agencies. During her time at the Partnership, she drafted the organization’s social media content, designed and analyzed surveys for leadership development programs and served as the relationship manager for the Department of Homeland Security. Lindsay has a bachelor’s degree in government and international politics and political journalism from George Mason University.

Rodney Fisher

Rodney Fisher understands at a deep level the problems with the justice system. In Oklahoma, his life sentence was recently commuted by the parole board and the governor and he was set free. Rodney served more than 30 years for little more than a series of purse snatchings. He continues to maintain his innocence and fight to clear his name.

Kelsey Fleener

Kelsey Fleener is a Wyoming native with deep roots in the Cowboy state. Kelsey is a decorated amateur golfer, winning the first individual state championship for Green River High School, the Wyoming Junior Amateur and the Wyoming State Amateur. Kelsey attended Weber State University where she was a starter for the Wildcats golf team, earning academic accolades while earning her degree in marketing and advertising. Kelsey graduated from the University of Wyoming College of Law and worked as an associate for the boutique criminal defense firm of Fleener Petersen. While an active-duty captain in the Army JAG Corps, Kelsey’s passions are service and justice reform.

Tom Fleener

Tom Fleener is the founding partner of the criminal defense firm of Fleener Petersen Law, LLC. Tom’s practice includes state and federal criminal defense in Wyoming, Colorado, and across the country. Tom has defended clients accused of nearly every crime possible, with a particular emphasis on complex federal and state drug conspiracies, white collar defense, sex crimes, and computer crimes. Tom began his legal career as a United States Army JAG Officer defending service members accused of committing crimes. By the time he left active duty he had compiled an unprecedented trial record by achieving dozens of acquittals in some of the military’s most complex and high-profile cases. After leaving active duty, Tom continued where he’d started – defending the innocent – this time in Cheyenne, Wyoming. In 2005, his reputation as an aggressive, top-notch federal defense attorney combined with his extraordinary record as an Army JAG led Tom to Guantanamo Bay where he was asked to defend alleged terrorist suspects scheduled to be tried by special military tribunals. Armed with a Top-Secret security clearance, Tom vigorously defended an alleged al Qaeda propagandist. His work led to him being profiled in the August 2007 edition of GQ magazine in a story titled, “The Defense Will Not Rest.” In addition to his criminal practice, Tom is a widely-sought out lecturer nationwide for his courtroom skills and Guantanamo Bay defense work. Tom is also an adjunct professor at the University of Wyoming College of Law where he teaches trial advocacy and clinical skills.

Jodi Garvey

Jodi Garvey is a partner and founding member of Blegen & Garvey, a criminal defense firm in Chicago, Illinois. Ms. Garvey has spent her entire twenty-year legal career representing individuals charged with federal and state offenses. In the past ten years, Ms. Garvey has focused her practice on the representation of individuals on appeal, in post-conviction proceedings and federal habeas corpus matters. Exonerating those wrongfully convicted of crimes is a primary focus of her practice, as well as reviewing cases of excessive sentencing.

Elizabeth Greenwood

Juris Doctorate University of Wyoming 1982; BA Economics; Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, 1977, Junior Year Abroad, University of Bath, Bath, England, 1995-96; Law School at the University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 1991-92 to qualify as a Barrister and Solicitor in Western Australia.

Sole practitioner from 1995 to present of Greenwood Law, LLC; D’Alessandro and Associates Law, Perth, WA, 1990-1995; served on the United States Senate Judiciary Committee (as council), Immigration and Refugee Policy Subcommittee; 1982-1984; Attorney at Spence, Moriarity, and Schuster, Jackson, WY;1986-1989; professional memberships - Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association; Wyoming State Bar; Law Society of Western Australia.

Trustee for the University of Wyoming, appointed March 2021; past board member - Sublette County Retirement Center, Pinedale Fine Arts.

Fourth generation Wyoming native; Elizabeth lives in Pinedale, Wyoming, has one daughter, Hannah Mae Brown, and two step-sons, Damon Brown and Patrick Brown, along with five grandchildren all who live in Western Australia.

Edward Klein

Edward Klein is a well-known editor, public speaker and a #1 New York Times bestselling author with a distinguished career in American journalism. Klein won admission to Stanford University before transferring to Columbia University, where he earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees. After graduating, he traveled throughout Asia as a foreign correspondent for United Press International. Upon his return to New York, he joined Newsweek, where he became foreign editor and then assistant managing editor with jurisdiction over foreign and military affairs. From Newsweek, he joined The New York Times. As editor in chief of The New York Times Magazine, he led this flagship publication of the Sunday Times to new heights of public interest and editorial excellence. During his editorship, The New York Times Magazine won the first Pulitzer Prize in its history. Since leaving The Times, Klein has written many articles for Vanity Fair and other national magazines. For Parade, he wrote “Walter Scott’s Personality Parade,” the most widely read column in the English language. His eleven nonfiction books have all appeared on The New York Times Best Seller List.

Rex A. Mann

Rex A. Mann, a partner at Winston & Strawn LLP, is a trial lawyer who focuses his practice on patent litigation and other intellectual property matters. He also works on commercial matters, often involving technology companies or complex technology. Rex’s work has garnered him honors by his peers, including being named one of the Top 100 Up-and-Coming Attorneys in Texas by Super Lawyers in 2020. Rex began his legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable T. John Ward in the Eastern District of Texas, and he has experience in all phases of trial, including voir dire, opening, closing, direct examination, and cross-examination of witnesses. In addition to his civil trial work, Rex spent three months on loan as an assistant district attorney in Dallas County, where he tried numerous criminal jury trials to verdict and obtained a guilty verdict in every one.

Dixie McCollum

Dixie McCollum is a third-year law student at the University of South Carolina School of Law, where she serves as editor-in-chief of the South Carolina Law Review. Dixie has also been elected twice to serve on the Student Bar Association and as a peer mentor for incoming law students. Prior to attending law school, Dixie attended the Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics with a focus in genetic epidemiology. Upon her graduation, she attended Wofford College where she double majored in Spanish and international affairs. During this time, Dixie studied abroad in Chile, Germany and Spain. She also completed a summer at Bard College in New York City with a focus on international security. Dixie graduated summa cum laude and was selected as a member of Phi Beta Kappa for her academic achievements. Although Dixie is still in law school, she has worked at three nationally recognized law firms in Columbia, Greenville, Charlotte and New York City. Her areas of focus have included state and local taxation, employment law, ERISA benefits and data management. This past summer, Dixie worked under leading criminal defense attorney Dick Mulligan in Jackson, Wyoming, where she helped partake in a five-day criminal trial. When she is not absorbed with learning more about the law, Dixie enjoys traveling, hiking and spending time with her beagle, Copper. She is passionate about using her knowledge to help others and believes the Wyoming Truth is the perfect organization to channel her skills.

Inga Parsons

Inga Parsons is a multi-generational native of Kelly, Wyoming—three of her four grandparents were born in Kelly. She attended Harvard University and then went on to Columbia Law School. She was a summer associate for Gerry Spence and decided not to take their offer as she wanted to do public interest. After a federal clerkship in California, she worked as a federal public defender in Manhattan and then went on to teach at the federal defender clinic at New York University School of Law for eight years. She hung out her shingle in 2003 where she has been of counsel to Elizabeth Greenwood for nearly 20 years. She also provides indigent representation as a Federal Criminal Justice Act lawyer in the District of Massachusetts and the Southern District of New York when she is not litigating in Wyoming at the Greenwood Law firm. She is the author of Fourth Amendment: Practice and Procedure and co-author of Practice Commentaries to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. She fights for those who cannot fight for themselves to hold the government accountable when wielding the power of prosecution. She truly believes that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Marisa Rosen

Marisa Kuhn Rosen, director of the Wyoming Truth's Juvenile Justice Initiative, was born in New York City and grew up in Connecticut where she raced sailboats competitively on the Long Island Sound. Marisa attended Denison University and double majored in mathematics and economics. After graduating, she worked in Milan, Italy, for an aerospace company and Merrill Lynch in New York City. Marisa then received an MBA from Columbia University after which she worked at Lehman Brothers before moving back to Connecticut to raise a family. There, she dedicated her free time as a board member and treasurer of the Near and Far Aid Association, a nonprofit organization that provides funding for projects that address the causes and effects of poverty in Fairfield County. Ten years ago Marisa and her family moved to Jackson, Wyoming, where she is the director of operations of Elevation Medical Imaging.

Elisabeth M.W. Trefonas

Elisabeth M. W. Trefonas graduated with a bachelor of science in microbiology from UC Santa Barbara in 1999 and graduated cum laude from California Western School of Law in 2005. She moved from San Diego to Jackson Hole, where she opened Trefonas Law, P.C., in 2006 with a mission to provide exceptional representation and access to justice for her community. She was one of only three attorneys with expertise in immigration law in the entire state of Wyoming and the only Spanish/English speaking attorney in the region until other associates joined the firm. She continues to provide access to the legal system for a severely under-represented segment of the population. In fact, the Spanish-speaking community makes up almost 15% of the population in Wyoming and an estimated 30% of the population in Jackson Hole. She represents clients in deportation matters, affirmative benefits applications, and civil and criminal matters throughout the United States and internationally. In addition to her private practice, from 2010 to 2013, Ms. Trefonas was an Assistant Appellate Public Defender, arguing before the Wyoming Supreme Court over a dozen times. In 2013, she became the Supervising Assistant Public Defender in Teton and Sublette Counties, and remains the only full-time Public Defender in that region. She is admitted to the Wyoming and California State Bars, the 10th and 9th Circuit Courts of Appeal, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the Executive Offices of Immigration Review. Ms. Trefonas was featured in the article "Lady Justice, How one woman is waging the battle for Jackson's Voiceless," November 8, 2016. https://archive.planetjh.com/2016/11/08/feature-lady-justice/

Reid Burrows

The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law

2nd-year law student

Aline Garcia-Lopez

University of Wyoming

Senior

Shawn C. Gremp

University of Wyoming

Senior

Cristian D.C. Soles

University of Wyoming

Junior

Madeline Thulin

University of Colorado Boulder

2020 graduate