Our Staff

Amy Stewart

Vice President, Development

Ashley Perales

Senior Manager of Development & Operations
David McLaughlin

David McLaughlin

Chief Operating Officer

Em Troughton

Manager of Digital Communications and Strategy

Erica Montgomery

Executive Assistant

Lynn Unger

Competency Diversion Projects Director

Vincent Atchity

President & CEO

Wendy Buxton-Andrade

Vice President, Government Affairs

Interns

Erica Doyle

Max Karpinski

Neolani Madrid

Sydney Reichert

Board of Directors

Venita Currie

  • Secretary
  • Founder & CEO, Currie Consulting Group
  • Denver

Raul De Villegas-Decker

  • Interim Chair
  • Founder, Principal Consultant, RDV Executive Consulting Group, LLC
  • Grand Junction

Amelia Fink

  • Founder, Fink Philanthropic Consulting
  • Denver

Jaime FitzSimons

  • Sheriff, Summit County
  • Silverthorne

Patrick Fox

  • Medicaid Market President, Elevance Health
  • Denver

Emily Harlan

  • SVP, Legal, Bandwidth Inc.
  • Lone Tree

Jennifer S. Harpole

  • Shareholder, Littler Mendelson P.C.
  • Centennial

Emily Hemaiden

  • Senior Controller, D4 Urban
  • Denver

Sally Gomez

  • Former Board President, North Range Behavioral Health
  • Former Lieutenant, Weld County Sheriff's Office
  • Greeley

Bruce LePage

  • Director of Preconstruction, Mortenson
  • Denver

Teagan Malecha

  • Community Relations Coordinator, Kroenke Sports and Entertainment
  • Denver

Elizabeth Paulsen

  • Treasurer
  • Shareholder, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
  • Denver

Shannon Van Deman, MBA

  • Chair Emeritus
  • Director, Office of Medicaid Innovation, University of Illinois
  • Former Vice President, Pediatric Mental Health Institute, Children's Hospital Colorado
  • Denver

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