Claudia Bonnist Winchell, co-owner of Fighting Bear Antiques and broker and owner of Private Realty Group, LLC, came to Jackson, Wyoming in 2005. Claudia is currently on the Council for Teton Literacy Group, a non-profit language teaching organization and involved in Jackson Hole's "Center for the Arts." She was originally from Larchmont and Mamaroneck, New York, and raised her two, now grown, children, in Greenwich, Connecticut. Claudia then moved to Sanibel Island, Florida where she resided for 17 years and was a broker-associate with Priscilla Murphy Realty, later ResortQuest International. Earlier in her career, Claudia was the assistant to the president of Donald Art Company, a family owned fine art publishing company, and worked with an advertising company for many years prior to her move to Florida. Claudia graduated from George Washington University with a bachelors degree in fine art and a minor in both math and French.