YCC 2016 Heading to Capitol Hill

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Ariel Overstreet-Adkins is representing the Montana Stockgrowers Association on the 2016 Young Cattlemen's Conference hosted by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. Ariel and other cattlemen and cattlewomen will take to Capitol Hill and speak one-on-one with elected officials about policy affecting the beef industry. 

Ariel is a 2016 graduate of the University of Montana School of Law. Ariel’s article “Extraordinary Protections for the Industry that Feeds Us: Examining a Potential Constitutional Right to Farm and Ranch in Montana,” was published by the Montana Law Review in February. Ariel was named a W.D. Farr Scholar by the National Cattlemen’s Foundation in 2014. Prior to law school, Ariel served as director of communications and lobbyist for the Montana Stockgrowers Association for five years. She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in cultural anthropology where her senior thesis was entitled: “Growing Up Cowboy: High School Rodeo in Montana.” Ariel grew up on her family’s horse ranch in Big Timber. She and her husband, Zac, raise a few acres of alfalfa in Helena. Ariel is currently serving as vice president of the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame & Western Heritage Center.

 

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