Lucy Pauley

Lucy Pauley is the Coordinator of the Wyoming Agriculture &
Natural Resource Mediation Program, which operates out of the
Wyoming Dept. of Agriculture in Cheyenne. The program provides
mediation, facilitation and other alternative dispute resolution
services for individuals and organizations involved in a wide variety
of conflicts including farm credit, grazing permits, water disputes,
neighbor/neighbor conflicts, ag family issues and more. Lucy has
more than twenty years of experience mediating a wide variety of
agricultural disputes and workplace conflicts. Lucy is also a certified
Farm Succession Coordinator and is available to help Wyoming
farm and ranch families work through the succession planning
process. Lucy grew up in Wyoming and graduated from the
University of Wyoming with a B.S. in Animal Science in 1995. She
received her Master’s Degree in Public Administration from UW in
2004. She has worked for the Dept. of Agriculture since 1996.

Lesley Pearson

Lesley Pearson is a Certified Public Accountant and founder of
Verity Group CPA in Buffalo, Wyoming. She holds bachelor’s
degrees in agribusiness and accounting and a master’s in business
administration, all from the University of Wyoming. Lesley’s interest
and involvement in agriculture started with 4-H and FFA activities
in her hometown of Lander and has continued to grow since those
days. Entrepreneurship and business management are long-time
interests of Lesley’s. She started an accounting practice in 2018 with
the goal of helping clients make sense of the numbers so they can
make better-informed decisions for their operations. Lesley and her
husband, Travis, have called Buffalo Wyoming home since 2007.
Their kids keep them busy with a myriad of middle-school sports
and 4-H activities.