Beki Glyde Brandborg is a Helena resident for 40 years and originates from the Bitterroot where she still spends a lot of time with family on land acquired by her grandfather GM Brandborg while he was the Bitterroot National Forest Supervisor.

She is a meeting facilitator for non-profits and State government agencies, as an independent contractor doing strategic planning and problem solving.

After helping Helena’s Rocky Mountain Development Council for a number of years with affordable, income-restricted housing projects, its former Director Gene Leuwer and she began doing it as their own company. She’s been involved with a dozen new-builds in Billings, Laurel, Deer Lodge, Wolf Point, Boulder, Augusta, Helena, White Sulphur Springs, Townsend and Belgrade.

A handful of their projects were purchases of old USDA-Rural Development projects where complete renovations take place, ensuring the rent restrictions are maintained and the residents keep their homes. These include apartments in Hamilton, Wolf Point, Havre, Culbertson, and Laurel.

Beki oversees the family’s historic ranch in Broadwater County, originally homesteaded by her great grandparents in Radersburg, where she manages it for wildlife. The Brandborgs are “cooperators” with the FW&P Block Management Program and use the funds to maintain fence, protect the riparian area, and improve the water resource.

She serves on the Board of the local Friends of Head Start, is Co-Chair of the Montana Alzheimer’s / Dementia Coalition, and Chair of the Montana Housing Coalition.

Though old enough to be retired, in addition to pursuing more affordable housing projects for Montanans with modest incomes, she adopts old and infirm pugs and raises bees.