Michelle Forster recently returned to her home state of Wyoming after leaving a diverse career in Opera and Title Insurance in Los Angeles. While in LA, she also became a skilled homebrewer and worked as a brand ambassador and back office consultant for various LA breweries. She completed her professional certificate in the Business of Craft Beer from the University of Vermont in 2016 and has been a Course Facilitator for the same program ever since.

Michelle is a Certified Cicerone® and the Executive Director of the Wyoming Craft Brewers Guild where she proudly represents the collective voice of all breweries in the Cowboy State.  Ms. Forster is also the Executive Director of the Wyoming Distillers Guild, an organization that strives to promote the burgeoning craft distilling industry in Wyoming. When she’s not working to understand the ins and outs of WY liquor laws or drumming up exciting new promotions for WY breweries, she can be found kayaking, fishing or generally wandering in the beautiful Big Horn Mountains near her home in Sheridan.