Jay Whitman lives in Laramie and is retired from the Albany County School District.  He was a fourth grade teacher who used outdoor education in his teaching and also covered the history of railroads in Wyoming as part of Wyoming history.  He and his wife Stephanie have a cabin near the Pelton Creek Trailhead of the MBRT and they both enjoy all outdoor activities.  He walks, bicycles, and skis on the MBRT.  He and Stephanie are Section Chiefs on the trail from the Pelton Creek Trailhead to Vienna Trailhead.

Amber is a board member and one of the founding members of the Friends of the Medicine Bow Rail Trail. She has been involved with the Rail Trail since the rail came up and the trail became a reality in 2007. Amber prepared grant requests and secured funding for Rail Trail upkeep and repairs. Amber earned Master’s degrees in wildlife biology and exercise physiology from the University of Wyoming. She runs her own environmental consulting company, Real West Natural Resource Consulting, as well as the Laramie Kempo Karate Club. Amber is a freelance writer and authored Mountain Biking Wyoming and Mountain Biking Jackson Hole. She is Tour Director and founder of the Tour de Wyoming bicycle tour that crosses the state every July. That event is the primary fundraiser for Cycle Wyoming, a non-profit organization that promotes safe cycling across the state. 

Joe Lord

• Has been a FMBRT member and a member of the Board since 2020, and currently is the Acting Chairman of the Board, and a member of the planning team of the Med Bow Rail Marathon & Half Marathon.
• Wyoming native; lived in Laramie since 1976.
• University of Wyoming graduate: Civil Engineering (1971), MBA (1989).
• Consulting professional civil engineer in Wyoming 42 years, now retired.
• Lead investigator and primary author of Medicine Bow Trail – Rails-To-Trail Corridor Study (2003)

Sharon Leder

Sharon is currently a board member of Friends of the Medicine Bow Rail Trail (FMBRT).  She worked with a small group of people to plan this non-profit organization and has been a member since its inception.   She has bachelor, masters, and doctoral degrees in nursing and is a retired faculty member of Grand Valley State University College of Nursing. As a member of the FMBRT board, she has served as the secretary.   Her work on the Rail Trail has included activities such as cleaning out the caboose before it was destroyed by fire, waxing information signs at trailheads, clearing portions of the trail of fallen and overhanging trees and other foliage annually, folding Rail Trail maps and distributing them to several Laramie businesses and containers at trailheads, helping to clear a large space of debris and burned tree stumps at the Lake Owen trailhead to provide parking for marathon participants, and engaging in various support tasks on the days of the marathons.

Stephanie Whitman lives in Laramie and is retired after 30+ years working in various aspects of public and environmental health.  She has experience in both the public and private sectors.  Since retiring she and her husband Jay spend about 1/3 of their time in the Medicine Bow Mountains at their cabin near the Pelton Creek Trailhead. As a result they spend a great deal of time biking, hiking, and skiing the trail and have become volunteer section chiefs for the Pelton Creek to Vienna Trailheads.