My name is Kate Cholewa. I have worked in Government Affairs for 30 years. I’m a lobbyist. I’ve worked on issues related to women’s health, elections, professional associations, local government, and human services. Well, those are the issues I worked on for 18 years. For the last 12, I’ve been a pot lobbyist. I’ve been the architect or played a key role in every piece of marijuana regulation in Montana since 2016. I’ve also worked on national and international projects related to cannabis regulation.

My last name is difficult to pronounce.

I am also a writer and ghostwriter. My novel, Shaking Out the Dead, was published in 2014.

My current project is a memoir/Creative Nonfiction (CNF) on the stretch from 2008 economic crash through post-covid, an era when the United States was re-wired.

I document the view from where I worked in marijuana policy.

It has a little bit of sex, a lot of politics, a spiritual quest, and a bearing witness to the final blow to Montana, where I live, as the Last Best Place.

K.M. (Kate) Cholewa (Ho-le’-va)