Alisha Brown is Senior Vice President of the Foundation and the founder and director of its be well Health and Wellness Initiative. Her focus is to advance equity through community-based strategies to ensure that all people have the opportunity to live a healthy and prosperous life regardless of their social circumstances.  She created the be well Block Captain community engagement model, an evidence-based approach that combines local neighborhood ingenuity with industry expertise. This model builds advocates in our most vulnerable communities to create solutions to our most complex challenges. The model is known nationally and is supported by various organizations including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Yesica is a first-generation student who graduated from the University of Colorado Denver with her B.S. in Psychology minor in Ethnic Studies. While receiving her bachelor's she coordinated different projects in the environmental justice, sustainability, and equity/inclusion sector. As a youth herself, she knew the impact of having youth at the table when making decisions that would impact our future. She currently works as a policy fellow for the Keystone Policy Center working on conflict resolution and facilitating groups ranging from public health, natural resources, and agriculture. In the next couple of months, she hopes to attend a master's in public health program to study the impacts of climate change on global health. 

A thought leader in international agriculture development with more than 30 years of experience in the design, management, implementation, and scaling of innovative ideas, Kerri has a passion for formulating new ways to capture learning, share knowledge, and build effective partnerships and successful programs. Her experience includes designing global policy dialogues, moving emerging agricultural technologies to market, and creating platforms for sustainable development and impact.

Mark has worked on energy issues for more than 25 years, first as a reporter at The Denver Post covering traditional and renewable energy and for the last 16 years in the private sector. Mark Eddy Communications (MEC) is a strategic planning communications/messaging and public will-building firm specializing in public policy issues.

Carlos leads 60 employees and works closely with his Board of Trustees, partner organizations, agencies, elected officials and other key decision-makers to advance conservation. He previously led TNC’s Patagonia team in their efforts to safeguard grasslands through private lands conservation, sustainable sheep ranching initiatives, and creating and strengthening public protected areas. Prior to that role, he spent six years based in Arlington, Virginia working as the Conservancy’s Senior Foreign Legal Advisor for South America. A native of Argentina, Carlos earned his law degree from Argentina’s Mendoza University and a graduate law degree at Georgetown University.

The daughter of a refugee father from China and an immigrant mother from Jamaica, whose own parents were, themselves, immigrants from Hong Kong, Jennifer Ho is a professor in the department of Ethnic Studies and the director of the Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Ho had a faculty appointment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2004-2019, where she taught courses in Asian American literature, contemporary multiethnic American literature, critical race studies, and intersectionality—she will be offering similar courses at CU Boulder. She is the current president of the Association for Asian American Studies and sits on the board for the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes, the National Committee on US-China Relations, and Kundiman, a national non-profit dedicated to Asian American writing and writers.

Ho is the author of three books: Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels (Routledge Press, 2005), Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2015), which won the 2016 South Atlantic Modern Languages Association award for best monograph, and Understanding Gish Jen (University of South Carolina Press, 2015). She is co-editor of a collection of essays on race and narratology, Race, Ethnicity, and Narrative in the United States (OSU Press, 2017) and a series of teaching essays on Asian American literature, Teaching Approaches to Asian American Literature (forthcoming MLA 2022). She has published in journals such as Modern Fiction Studies, Journal for Asian American Studies, Amerasia Journal, The Global South and has also presented at conferences such as the International Society for the Study of Narrative, American Studies Association, Modern Language Association, American Literature Association, and the Association of Asian American Studies. Two of her current book projects are a breast cancer memoir and a family autobiography that will consider Asian Americans in the global south through the narrative of her maternal family’s immigration from Hong Kong to Jamaica to North America. In addition to her academic work, Ho is active in community engagement around issues of race and intersectionality, leading workshops on anti-racism and how to talk about race in our current social climate.

Jennifer Holloway is the Executive Director of the Craig Chamber of Commerce. Previously, she served as director of student support at Colorado Northwestern Community College. She has volunteered on the boards of Moffat County United Way and the Craig/Moffat Economic Development Partnership, as well as serving as a member of the Moffat County Emergency Response Training Committee and the Moffat County Public Information Officer Committee.

Larry has over 25 years of global leadership in technology companies as well as extensive experience in strategy, market entry, technologies and business development in high-tech and renewable energy companies. He co-founded Solar Infra Inc. and later joined Solar Semiconductor as CEO. He holds a BSEE from Colorado State University and has completed the Executive Business program at Babson College. He is a member of IEEE, ASES and serves on the board of numerous industry associations.

Sundari has been working to affect policy change for almost a decade, beginning with local issues at municipal level and evolving to include state and county government affairs, ballot and candidate campaigns, communications consulting, and media relations. Her work in children’s health and public health, local development and infrastructure investments, and science-based sustainable agriculture policy has resulted in a comprehensive understanding of effective messaging and tactical strategies with contentious landscapes.

Patsy Landaveri is the founder of Impacto, a strategy and communications firm that creates strategic solutions to drive growth, protect stakeholders, and make a positive impact on the world. Patsy’s depth of energy industry expertise and multicultural advocacy spans two decades. Prior to Impacto, she managed Noble Energy’s award-winning Colorado community relations program and ESG communication strategy in Colorado and was a member relations manager at Tri-State Generation and Transmission. Patsy was named a Top Woman in Energy by the Denver Business Journal and is a graduate of the Colorado Governor’s Fellowship Program and the Leadership Denver. She holds an M.S. in Global Energy Management from the University of Colorado, a Graduate Certificate in Communications Management from the University of Denver, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Kentucky.   

Mark Magaña is the Founding President & CEO of GreenLatinos, a National network of Latino environmental and conservation advocates.

Mark is the first Latino to have served as senior staff at both the White House and in Congressional leadership – as Special Assistant to President Clinton for White House Legislative Affairs and Senior Policy Advisor to the House Democratic Caucus Vice-Chair Robert Menendez. Mark also served as a Presidentially appointed Congressional Liaison at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as Legislative Assistant to Congressional Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA), as a Federal Legislative Representative for the City of Los Angeles, and as a Research Assistant for the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO).

Jim’s career spans nearly 40 years developing talent in the global energy industry.  He has worked as a manager and consultant all over the world, and currently consults in areas of strategy execution, human performance, and public education in energy. He holds a BA in Political Science/International Relations from Michigan State University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Lorez brings over nineteen years of implementation and policy experience as a director of multilateral initiatives involving the public, private and civic sectors, working at the local, state, and national levels. Prior to joining Caring for Denver Foundation, Lorez served as a Senior Policy Director for the Keystone Policy Center, the Deputy Executive Director and Director of Community Partnerships for the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing.

Raj invites everyone to be a part of guiding and doing science, especially people from historically marginalized communities, so that the sciences can contribute to a world where all people and nature can thrive. Before joining AGU, Raj led education, engagement, and diversity programs connected to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), led an international research and development project that used weather data to better manage meningitis in Africa, and held a faculty position at West Chester State University.

Tisha founded Adamantine Energy to provide thought leadership to future-proof energy businesses against rising social risk. Tisha consults private clients from Fortune 500 energy companies to non-profit environmental organizations in energy policy, business strategy, politics, and community engagement. She also serves as the Strategic Advisor for Stanford University’s Natural Gas Initiative. Tisha’s book, Accidentally Adamant was published in 2018 and she authors a weekly series entitled Both of These Things Are True.

Kathleen Staks has almost two decades of experience in energy and natural resources. She previously served as the Director of External Affairs for Guzman Energy, leading stakeholder engagement, legislative and regulatory affairs, and strategic communications to help Guzman Energy meet its goal of transitioning communities across the country into a cleaner, more affordable energy future. Before joining Guzman Energy, Staks worked with the Colorado Energy Office, Colorado Department of Natural Resources, and other offices serving Colorado’s conservation efforts.

Seth is the CEO of New Day Hydrogen, which is seeding the hydrogen market in Colorado by integrating infrastructure development with commercial EV users and undertaking project development around fuel stations to match the timing and scale for hydrogen EV fleets. Seth holds a PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, an MBA from Regis, and a history/French degree from Princeton University.

Through her company Siting Clean, Dahvi currently co-leads an initiative called the Siting Clean Collaborative, helping to advise and connect members of the non-profit, academic, renewables industry, and philanthropic sectors who are working to tackle the local challenges associated with siting and permitting clean energy infrastructure. She also advises clean energy companies on strategies for integrating public acceptance risk assessment into their businesses and building out new community engagement functions within their teams.

​Prior to founding Siting Clean, Dahvi served as the Vice President of Public Affairs for Apex Clean Energy, where she built and directed an industry-leading public affairs team, focused on preserving and enhancing clean energy’s license to operate in statehouses and communities across the nation. Prior to joining Apex, Dahvi served in leadership roles with numerous community, government, and nonprofit organizations, specializing in strategic development, community relations, and communications.

​Dahvi is a board member of the Colorado Energy and Water Institute and Counterspark, an Advisory Board Member of the Institute for Science and Policy at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and a member of the City of Lafayette Planning Commission. She holds a Master of Environmental Management degree from Yale University and a BA from Brown University.