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Get to Know Colorado’s Thought Leaders and Changemakers
Some you’ll know. Others you should.
A CO.created project
CO.created is a community storytelling project that honors the power of collaboration and the people who are coming together with us to reshape the arc of opportunity for Colorado kids & families
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Anya Dickson-Arguello
“Our tech jobs are mostly occupied by young, white men. We have to change that. Lives depend on it.”
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TeRay Esquibel
“It wasn’t risky to say ‘Stop ignoring the brilliance in our backyard.’ The risk was staying silent.”
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Ednium: The Alumni Collective
How do we define success after high school? Who gets to come up with that definition? And what might happen if we didn’t just say “good luck” to the products of our public education systems after graduation?
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Richard Maez
“When our students say, ‘I can solve an equation but I can’t manage my debt,’ that’s a problem.”
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Kathe Traore
“I found my people in my mid-20s. Before that, it was like, ‘Who do I gotta pretend to be today?'”
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Alonso Jurado
“I got dropped at a bus depot with a duffle bag and $100. So many immigrant stories start that way.”
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Nita Gonzáles
Colorado’s only elder-sanctioned Día de los Muertos ceremony was started by Nita Gonzáles’ afterschool program. She wants more of the same for her kids. And when she says “her kids”, she doesn’t just mean the ones related to her by blood. She means all the children of the Chicano Movement, or El Movimiento. They’ve all come to fall under her loving and watchful eye after the movement gained life in Denver thanks to her visionary father, Corky Gonzáles — a poet himself.