Boulder Pride Staff
Aicila Lewis, Executive DirectorTel: (303) 499-5777 x1
As a recent transplant to the Boulder area from Washington state, Aicila is still adjusting to the sunlight. A long time activist, she joined her first board in 2001 and immediately became co-chair of their annual health fair. She went on to serve on other boards, including the Legal Marriage Alliance of Washington and the Foundation for Sex Positive Culture. This led to opportunities for public speaking at local and regional conferences to disseminate basic information about the queer community and .on the the importance of equality. As first the Program Director, and later the Executive Director, of the Rainbow Center in Tacoma, Washington, she really learned what it means to work in a grassroots movement. She is excited to bring the benefit of these experiences to Boulder Pride and looks forward to learning about Boulder from your experience.
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Kirsten Spielmann, Community Center Coordinator and Program DirectorTel: (303) 499-5777 x2
Kirsten Spielmann, Boulder Pride's Community Center Coordinator and Program Coordinator for Boulder Pride's SpeakingOUT Program possesses ten years of diversified experience in the communication arts including journalism, public affairs, public relations, university teaching and community organizing. Kirsten holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and a master’s degree in Public Relations, and is currently a fourth year PhD candidate in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Kirsten's dissertation focuses on Drag King culture, and transgender representation in the media.
Throughout Kirsten's professional and academic pursuits, she has always been passionate about and deeply committed to the GLBTQ community’s struggle for political and cultural equality. Given her areas of expertise, she has a strong desire and ability to make a positive difference in the lives of LGBTQ individuals.
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Monica Menduno, Administrative Assistant
Tel: (303) 499-5777 x3
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Boulder Pride's Board of Directors
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Casey Gallagher, President
Casey attended his first Boulder Pride open meeting just a couple of weeks after moving here from New York City in the summer of 2003. Casey is a dermatologist with a private practice, Boulder Valley Center for Dermatology, in Lafayette. He enjoys hiking, reading fiction and playing bridge.
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Dave Ensign, Treasurer
Dave Ensign develops broadband solutions and products as an Engineering Program Manager with Cisco, and has been in the computer and telecommunications business for 23 year. Originally from Wisconsin, Dave has lived in many places, including New Jersey and Belgium. He's been in Boulder since 2004. Dave and his husband Mike, have been very active in GLBT causes for many years, and both enjoy working with Boulder Pride. In his leisure time, Dave enjoys running, traveling, music and communing with nature.
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Beth Smith, Secretary
Beth A. Smith, M.A. is a psychotherapist, executive coach and organizational consultant. Beth holds Masters Degrees in Counseling Psychology: Contemplative Psychotherapy (Naropa University, 2006) and Organizational & Human Learning (The George Washington University, 2001). She has over 16 years of corporate management experience in senior and mid-level leadership roles at two Fortune 500 organizations. Beth is passionate about social justice issues, transgender and gender queer awareness and advocacy, LGBTQ youth and aging experiences and social entrepreneurship. She enjoys studying and practicing Buddhist teachings, hiking with her dogs, being a step-parent to a fantastic teenager and living a full and rich life with her partner.
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Ever Costain
Ever Costain is a student of Indecisive Undergraduate Studies at CU Boulder, as well as a volunteer and board member of Boulder Pride. Ze was active in the OASOS youth program for much of the past 5 years, and has presented workshops on youth and transgender topics at a range of regional and national queer conferences. Besides activism, zir interests range from theoretical astrophysics to dodgeball to poetry to veganism to voraciously reading anything and everything. Ever joined the Boulder Pride board in October 2005, where ze has promoted youth empowerment and increased visibility and awareness of transgender and intersex causes. |
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Cris Jones
More information coming soon.
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Marlon Reis
Marlon Reis is a writer and a board game inventor. His special passions include animal activism, environmentalism, and Romantic literature. Having recently finished work on a 2-year board game endeavor, he is now looking forward to beginning work on a novel about animal intelligence. A native of Boulder, Marlon also holds a bachelor's degree in English from the Univerity of Colorado.
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Keith Robbins
Over the past several years Keith Robbins has served several not-for-profit organizations in varying capacities from volunteer, trustee, board member, treasurer, and president. Keith joined the Boulder Pride Board in September of 2005, because he wanted to be part of an organization that promotes inclusion of LGBTQ people with the general community. “I dream of the day when we are so included in society that the question of our sexuality is never asked.”
Keith grew up in Loveland, Colorado graduating from UNC with BS in Business Administration – Finance with a Minor in Economics, and later earned an MBA in Finance and Accounting from Regis University. As for activities, he enjoys horseback riding, tennis, skiing (water and snow), hiking, biking, and travel. Oh, and let’s not forget golf!
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Dominick Sekich
Dominick Sekich is a lawyer focusing on commercial and corporate transactions. Dominick was born and raised in Boulder County, and now calls Boulder home, although he has spent a number of years living in other cities, both in the U.S. and abroad. He has served on the boards of several Colorado LGBT organizations, including the Colorado Legal Initiatives Project and The Center. Dominick has a passion for conservation issues and historic preservation and presently serves as a Trustee of the Colorado Historical Foundation and as Co-President of Historic Boulder, Inc.
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Joe Song
Joe Song is a web designer working at Web Ink. Prior to starting his own web design firm, he worked on the Referendum I campaign, fighting for domestic partnerships rights, in the Boulder field office. Joe worked collaboratively with the University of Colorado and local businesses and organizations in Boulder county to garner the highest support in the state for Referendum I. In 2007, Joe undertook thecomplete redesign and rebranding of Boulder Pride's website. He has served on the Boulder Pride board since January 2007.
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Melissa "Preston" Vaughn
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Amy Zuckerman
Amy Zuckerman designs and leads management and leadership training for Harvard Business School Publishing. She has held similar positions with The Gallup Organization in Washington, DC and DigitalThink in San Francisco, CA. Amy earned her M.A. in Organization Development from the University of San Francisco and her undergraduate degree in English and Politics from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. She has led diversity and cross-cultural training in a variety of organizations. She authored, with Dr. George Simons, the book "Sexual Oreintation in nthe Workplace: Gay Men, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Heterosexuals Working Together," (Sage Publications, 1996). |
