Visit Neylan’s Projects:

www.betterdays2020.org

www.utahwomenshistory.org

www.utahheritage.org

www.mormonwomen.com

Women at Church

Pioneering the Vote

About Neylan

Neylan McBaine is a non-profit leader, marketing executive and passionate advocate. As the author of three books and TEDx presenter, Neylan has been called a “uniquely important” “change agent” in Utah and within her faith. Drawing from foundational years as a marketer in Silicon Valley, Neylan brings a unique combination of audience awareness, clear communication and a sense of creative fun to her work in the non-profit, education and cause-oriented spaces.

Since co-founding Better Days 2020 four years ago, Neylan has been a leader in speaking and writing about women's leadership and the U.S. suffrage movement, with a specific focus on Utah and the west's early role in that movement. She developed a team of historians, educators and marketers that have changed the way Utahns view and understand women's history, leading to shifts in current perceptions of ourselves and Utahns generally. Neylan previously founded another non-profit, the Mormon Women Project, which changed the dialogue around Latter-day Saint women in significant ways.

In 2020, Neylan was named “Extraordinary Woman” of the year by the YWCA of Utah, included in a Zions Bank mural of Utah Women in downtown Salt Lake City, and her book Pioneering the Vote: The Untold Story of Suffragists in Utah and the West won the Freedoms Foundation National Award. Neylan is a graduate of Yale University, mother to three daughters, and lives in Salt Lake City.