In high school, I was voted Most Likely to Be Rich. So far at least, it’s not a very accurate prediction. If that was ever really the goal though, I wouldn’t have picked a nonprofit career path.
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Making Time
Every year the Daylight Savings Time “spring forward” catches me off guard and steals an hour of my day. When everyone’s days seem so short already, that lost hour seems to come at a great cost.
Patients First for Integrated Care
One out of every four Coloradans experienced one or more days of poor mental health during the past 30 days. Nearly everyone has faced at least one bout of stress, depression, or emotional instability at some point in their life.
Leading with Data
I enjoyed math and science as a young person, majored in science in college, and was indoctrinated into the public health world’s love of data, methodology, and statistical significance in graduate school.
Zoom in, Zoom out
In sixth grade, my mother hired me as a graphic designer. At the time, there was one and only one thing about my graphic design services that she found appealing—I was extremely affordable.
The “No-Casserole” Disease
“Riders on the Storm” is Natasha Gardner’s 5280 investigation of Colorado’s mental health system. The information she presents is timeless in helping to understand mental illness.
Fixing What Isn’t Broken
I just celebrated my three-year anniversary working for CCMU, but a bigger three-year anniversary celebration is on the horizon: three years of the Connect to Coverage, Connect to Care Campaign.
Rekindling the Passion
I have skied a lot in my life. I started at a young age, and since both my parents were small business owners, we never took week-long vacations, just weekly pilgrimages to the Colorado mountains to ski.
Winning the Super Bowl
Coloradans have a lot of opinions—on politics, education, the economy, the climate, and much more—and we may disagree with each other on much of it. However, for the next week at least, we are United in Orange.
Mapping Our Way to a Healthier Future
As a child, I remember looking over maps on hiking trips and grappling with how to identify my location and the route of our journey. The skill I never quite mastered was folding the map back up correctly.