Staff

Jason Marsden

Executive Director

Jason Marsden has served as executive director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation since July 1, 2009. He was born in St. James, Minnesota, a small farming town, and moved with his family to Sheridan, Wyoming during elementary school, graduating from Sheridan High in 1990 and Harvard College, with a degree in English, in 1994. He served as field director for the Wyoming Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign in 1994 before starting a seven-year career as a Casper Star-Tribune reporter, covering government, the environment, the energy industry and the state’s congressional delegation both from Casper and later from Washington, D.C. Jason won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 8 Environmental Achievement Award in 1998 for his coverage of the litigation and eventual cleanup of Casper’s former Amoco Refinery site, and was twice honored by the Wyoming Wildlife Federation. During the aftermath of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a personal friend, Jason came out publicly in the newspaper’s pages and spoke frequently to journalism conferences and schools nationwide about coverage of hate crimes in local communities. In 2001, he became the founding executive director of Wyoming Conservation Voters and the WCV Education Fund, Wyoming’s leading political and lobbying organization for wildlife and environmental conservation. He continues to serve on the board of directors of the Alliance for Historic Wyoming, a historic preservation education and advocacy organization, and continues to lobby the Wyoming Legislature against ending the Equality State’s recognition of valid same-sex marriages from other states and countries. Jason and his partner of 13 years, former Casper Mayor Guy Padgett, live in Glendale, Colorado.

Greg Greenhalge

Development Director

Greg Greenhalge joined the Matthew Shepard Foundation as the Development Director in July 2010. A Colorado native, Greg was born in Longmont, is a third-generation Longmont High School graduate, and holds an M.A. in Communication from the University of Colorado-Denver, which included work on launch, startup and fundraising for nonprofits, and involvement in grant applications. Greg has extensive marketing experience, having worked for the Children’s Hospital of Colorado and Out Front Colorado, a statewide GLBT newsmagazine. He previously supervised onsite volunteers for the Foundation’s “Bear To Make A Difference” annual gala for several years and was a member of the gala’s dinner committee. Greg continues to maintain a strong relationship in his church since participating in its youth ministry program as a teenager. His involvement has now led to his current role as director of children, youth and family ministries as well as serving on the Rocky Mountain Conference’s “Conference Council on Youth Ministries” for the United Methodist Church in planning its youth leadership events, including assisting with a 400-student ministry charity program in South Carolina repairing low-income families’ homes. As Development Director, Greg ensures that adequate financial resources are raised for the Foundation’s programs, through individual donations, grants, corporate partnerships, gifts and bequests, and earned income such as e-commerce, events and speaking engagements. Greg serves as the Foundation’s point of contact in working with third-party event sponsors, acknowledging gifts, and overseeing key fundraising activities such as Bear to Make a Difference, Bear on the Road and the Matthew Shepard Foundation Gay Ski Week in Crested Butte, CO.

Warren Greene

Operations Director

Logan Shepard

Communications Associate