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MWCA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Becky Kington was the Executive Director of the Montana Weed Control Association from 2001 – 2021. In January 2024, she returned to MWCA to continue her career as the Executive Director.

Becky is a native Montanan raised in Helena. She graduated from UM Western Montana College with a degree in secondary education art and English. She taught school in Clyde Park, Dillon, and Bridger, Montana, and served a four-year teaching stint in Boardman, Oregon. In 2001 Becky was hired as a part time executive director for the MWCA. She left the teaching realm in 2002 and accepted a job as the project coordinator for the Madison Valley Ranchlands Group Weed Committee and began a full-time career in the nonprofit realm. In 2006 Becky became a full-time executive director for the MWCA. 

Over the 20+ years Becky has been with the MWCA, she took over leading a small group of weed managers with a budget of less than $25000 to overseeing a large contingent of board members and volunteers who now serve all Montanans who are interested in weed management. Becky currently oversees an annual operating income of over $200,000 per year, and she manages independent contractors and volunteers working on the projects that support the MWCA mission. In her tenure she has served as the principle grant writer, securing grants that have helped fund major efforts including:  Zero Spread, Fight 5 and Commission and Weed Board Trainings, weed ID videos and extensive radio advertising with Northern Ag Broadcasting. She has been the event planner behind all MWCA training events including the MWCA annual conference. As the editor of MWCA publications she was instrumental in moving a quarterly newsletter into the Weed Times, a full-scale member magazine. Becky works hard to continually improve the MWCA through professional development for both staff and board, engaging in seminars and trainings for nonprofit organizations in everything from IRS reporting standards and improving board governance to volunteer management and fundraising.

Becky resides in Twin Bridges, Montana, and in Wickenburg, Arizona, for the winters. She is an avid jackpot team roper and golfer. Becky lives with her other half, Pete Novich, two dogs, three cats and five horses with a various assortment of roping cattle at any given time. She volunteers as the local arena club secretary and serves in an advisory capacity for the Beaverhead Ladies Golf Board. She also enjoys creek fishing the old-fashioned way (hook and worm) in the high country, crafting and occasionally she picks up the pencil for some artwork in her limited spare time.