Tyler Christensen
Yes, my name is Tyler, and yes, I’m female. What can I say? My mom named me.
I’m a mom myself now, as well as the Opinion page editor for the Missoulian, in charge of the Opinion pages in print and online. I have been with the Missoulian for four years and lived in Missoula for 10. I’m a graduate of the University of Montana School of Journalism and I also have a degree in liberal studies.
At about the same time I began working at the Missoulian, first as the staff reporter for Western Montana Inbusiness Monthly and later as the full-time business reporter, I also started a family. My husband, Charlie, and I now have a beautiful, vibrant 5-year-old daughter, named Willow. We also have a cat and two big dogs.
Sherry Devlin
I’m Sherry Devlin, mom to Conor and Kelly, for whom I am grateful every moment of every day. I’m also editor of the Missoulian and a longtime resident of Missoula (for which I also am ever-grateful).
My children are no longer children, but fully fledged and grown up.
Conor teaches fourth grade in Victorville, Calif., tending a flock of 30-plus each day. His infinite patience and goodness with his students is awe-inspiring. Visiting his classroom is a joy. One of my favorite photos shows Conor and his students, all lined up, making silly faces in front of a bulletin board that proclaims: “Mr. D’s Busy Bees.”
Kelly is a student at the University of Montana School of Law, and tends to her studies for days and hours that would long ago have defeated me. Her hopes and dreams inspire and remind me of the infinite possibilities that life spreads out before us all. One of my favorite mental pictures is of a much-younger Kelly, bundled in hat, coat and gloves in the driveway of our house, shooting baskets on the coldest winter day, refusing to stop until she sunk 10.
Dogs? Yes. Two. An incredibly sweet old black Lab named Kootenai, and an impossibly rambunctious but very cute Pomeranian named Puppy.