Lindsay Hansen Park (born 1982) is an American Mormon feminist, writer, podcaster, and executive director of the Salt Lake City-based Sunstone Education Foundation. She is best known as the creator and host of the podcast Year of Polygamy, which examines the history of Mormon polygamy, with particular attention to the experiences of women.
Park has self-identified as an "Independent Mormon".
Early life Park was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Salt Lake Valley. Her mother was a public historian who spoke on pioneer history. Park resides in Salt Lake City with her family.
Career and activism Park co-founded Utah for Congo, an organization raising awareness about sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She also served as Director of Counseling Services for the Whitefields Education Foundation, which provided counseling and resources for Latter-day Saints experiencing disruptions in religious identity.
Park wrote for Feminist Mormon Housewives under the pseudonym "Winterbuzz" and hosted the site's podcast. Her work and commentary have been referenced in The Wall Street Journal, The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City Weekly, The Guardian, and Quartz.
As executive director of the Sunstone Education Foundation, Park has been credited with helping broaden the organization's magazine readership and annual conference attendance.
Year of Polygamy In 2014, Park founded the Year of Polygamy podcast. The podcast began with biographical episodes about women sealed to Joseph Smith and later expanded to cover the history of plural marriage in the Latter Day Saint movement and its continuation among Mormon fundamentalist groups.
The podcast was referenced in a New York Times article on Leslie Olpin Petersen's Forgotten Wives series of paintings.
Media consulting Park worked as a consultant on the television series Under the Banner of Heaven and the Netflix limited series American Primeval.
Podcasts YearTitleHostNotes2012–2014Feminist Mormon Housewives Official PodcastSelf124 episodes2014–2024Year of PolygamySelf195 episodes2019–2026Sunstone Mormon History PodcastSelf165 episodes2021Was I in a Cult?Liz Iacuzzi and Tyler MeasomEpisode: "The Order: 'Feel Like a Number; Credited as producer
Filmography YearTitleRoleProducerConsultantNotes2018Warren Jeffs: Prophet of EvilSelf (Polygamy historian)TV documentary2022Under the Banner of Heaven—7 episodes; Historical and cultural consultant2024Daughters of the CultSelf3 episodes2025American Primeval—6 episodes; Historical consultantHow I Escaped My CultSelf (Historian)Episode: "Yearning for Zion/FLDS"
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External links
Lindsay Hansen Park at Sunstone