John Wright Hickenlooper Jr. is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Colorado since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 42nd governor of Colorado from 2011 to 2019 and as the 43rd mayor of Denver from 2003 to 2011. He was a geologist and businessman before entering politics.
Rebecca Love Kourlis is a former justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.
David Quammen is an American science,nature,and travel writer and the author of fifteen books. His articles have appeared in Outside Magazine,National Geographic,Harper's,Rolling Stone,The New York Times Book Review,The New Yorker,and other periodicals.
Linda K. Hogan is a poet,storyteller,academic,playwright,novelist,environmentalist and writer of short stories. She is currently the Chickasaw Nation's Writer in Residence. Hogan is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. She lives in Tishomingo,Oklahoma.
Julian Rubinstein December 27,1968 is an American journalist,documentary filmmaker and educator. He is best known for his longform magazine journalism and his non-fiction books,Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, which chronicles the life of one of the world's most popular living folk heroes and The Holly:Five Bullets,One Gun and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood,a multi-generational story of activism and gang violence in a northeast Denver community. While reporting The Holly,he began filming THE HOLLY,a feature documentary,which captures significant problems in a federal anti-gang effort and the targeted takedown of an activist.
The 2010 Colorado gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday,November 2,2010 to elect the Governor of Colorado,who would serve a four-year term that began in January 2011. One-term incumbent Democrat Bill Ritter announced that he would not run for re-election in 2010. Dan Maes,backed by the Tea Party movement,won the Republican nomination in the primary with 50.6% of the vote and a 1.3% margin over rival Scott McInnis. In claiming victory,Maes called on former representative Tom Tancredo,running as the Constitution Party's nominee to "stop your campaign tonight." Denver mayor John Hickenlooper was unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Hickenlooper won the race with over 50% of the vote.
Kristen Iversen is an American writer of nonfiction and fiction. Her books include Full Body Burden:Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats,Molly Brown:Unraveling the Myth and Shadow Boxing:Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction, as well as the anthologies Don't Look Now:Things We Wish We Hadn't Seen and Doom with a View:Historical and Cultural Contexts of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant. She is a Professor in English and Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati and Literary Nonfiction Editor of The Cincinnati Review. Iversen was chosen to be a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bergen,Norway in 2020-2021.
Michelle Beisner-Buck is a former National Football League (NFL) cheerleader,dancer,actress,and currently a reporter for ESPN,doing feature reports for Monday Night Football and its pregame show Monday Night Countdown.
Joseph A. Garcia is an American lawyer and politician. He served as the 48th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado from January 2011 to May 2016.
Helen Myers McLoraine (1918–2003) was the founder of The Pioneer Fund,a philanthropic organization "with a focus on figure skating,higher education assistance and medical research". She was a private investor in the gas and oil industry since the 1950s and became an early female figure in business leadership. After its establishment in the 1960s,she maintained The Pioneer Fund through her own estate and from private donations.
Rick Palacio is an American political executive who served as Chairman of the Colorado Democratic Party from 2011 to 2017.
Philip Cole Finegan II is an American lawyer who has served as the United States attorney for the District of Colorado since 2021. He served as Denver's City Attorney and Chief of Staff to then Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper from 2003 through 2006. He was also the regional managing partner of the Americas for Hogan Lovells and managing partner of the law firm's Denver office.
Brian Boatright is an American lawyer and judge,who is the chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. He previously served as a judge on the Colorado District Court from 1999 to 2011.
Laura Pritchett is an American writer. Pritchett is the author of five literary novels and one book of nonfiction. Her work is rooted in the American West and has been significantly influenced by her native Colorado. Both her fiction and nonfiction often focus on issues of ecology,conservation,climate change,and social justice issues. She has been awarded the PEN USA Award for Fiction,the High Plains Literary Award,the Milkweed National Fiction Prize,the WILLA Fiction Award,and others. She is the editor of three anthologies,all on environmental topics,and writes regularly for magazines.
Vicente LLP,formally known as Vicente Sederberg, is an American cannabis law firm headquartered in Denver,Colorado that represents clients in the cannabis industry and works on state and local cannabis policy reform. As of 2019,the firm was nationally recognized by Chambers and Partners as one of seven Band 1 Law firms in the US practicing cannabis law.
Donna Lynne is the chief executive officer of Denver Health. She was the senior vice president and chief operating officer of Columbia University Irving Medical Center before joining Denver Health in September 2022. Lynne is a member of the Democratic Party who served as the 49th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado,from 2016 to 2019. She also served in a dual capacity as the chief operating officer of the State of Colorado. She was appointed to the position by Colorado governor John Hickenlooper on March 23,2016,and was confirmed by the Colorado House of Representatives and the state Senate on May 4,2016. Lynne replaced the outgoing lieutenant governor,Joseph A. Garcia. Prior to her appointment,Lynne was an executive with Kaiser Permanente.
Ausma Zehanat Khan is an American-Canadian novelist and author of crime and fantasy novels.
Auon'tai M. "Tay" Anderson is an American politician and community organizer from Denver,Colorado. A member of the Democratic Party,he is serving as one of the Directors of the Denver Public Schools Board of Education since 2019. In September 2021,he was censured by the board for "behavior unbecoming of a board member" following an investigation of allegations against him.
Carter Wilson is an American novelist and short-fiction writer based in Erie,Colorado. He is best known for his works of domestic and psychological suspense. Wilson is an author of eight books.
Carrie Baird is an American chef and businesswoman. She is a Top Chef alumna and restaurateur.
