COMMUNITY Advisors
A diverse group of Colorado community leaders provides strategic guidance for the Colorado Media Project. The leaders below served on our Local Advisory Committee from 2019 through 2021. Our Executive Committee is now working to select Community Advisors for our next phase of work, who will help ensure that CMP funding and activities are grounded in community information needs and support a sustainable, collaborative, nonpartisan news and information ecosystem.
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Chris Barge (Executive Director, Boulder Public Library Foundation) is a community advocate that served in senior leadership positions for the last 13 years at Community Foundation Boulder County, where he helped launch a Latino parent engagement program into an independent nonprofit, as well as directing the foundation’s biennial TRENDS Report on the social and economic health of Boulder County. He joined in 2008 after a 10-year career in newspapers, including with the Rocky Mountain News and the Boulder Daily Camera.
Curtis Esquibel (Director of Communications and Community Engagement for the Boettcher Foundation) is a connector who believes profoundly in the power of philanthropy and education to alter lives, impact communities and enhance leadership practice. Before joining the foundation, Curtis served as the Associate Director of the Latino Leadership Institute at DU. Prior to the LLI, Curtis spent 15 years working in college access and secondary education as a program director, outreach lead, college advisor and teacher. Curtis also wrote professionally for several newspapers in Colorado and California early in his career.
Mario Carrera (former Chief Revenue Officer at Entravision, the largest affiliate of Univision) is a community leader with a long history of journalism excellence. Under his tenure as Senior VP of Spanish Language Television and as Vice President and General Manager overseeing television, radio and interactive assets in Colorado, Entravision's Noticias Univision Colorado won 14 Emmy's, and KCEC-TV won the Best 2010 Public Service Award Campaign from the Colorado Broadcasters Association.
Nicole Glaros (Chief Investment Strategy Officer at Techstars) was a catalyst in growing the organization from two people to a global powerhouse with 47 programs worldwide, events in over 500+ cities, and a market cap of over $7B with nearly $500M under management. With 15-years’ experience mentoring, supporting, and investing in entrepreneurs, Nicole is an expert in growing global organizations, building startup ecosystems, working with early stage startups, venture capital, and more.
Jerrold “Jerry” Glick (Managing Partner, Columbia Group LLLP) is a lifelong community leader with experience in a broad range of civic projects. He is a member of the Colorado Forum, and has previously served as Vice President of the Denver Union Station Project Authority, Chairman of the Rose Community Foundation’s Board of Trustees, Chairman of the Downtown Denver Partnership Management Committee, Chairman of Denver Civic Ventures, and Chairman of the Denver Urban Renewal Authority.
Joanne Kelley (CEO, Philanthropy Colorado) leads the organization in its efforts to provide education and advocacy for Colorado’s philanthropic sector. Previously, Joanne spent much of her career in journalism with news agencies, magazines and daily newspapers in Denver, Washington, DC, New York City and Chicago. She serves on the board of the Washington-based United Philanthropy Forum, a national network of philanthropy-serving organizations. She also is the Board Chair of Food and Environment Reporting Network, an investigative news organization.
Gail Klapper (Member/ President, Colorado Forum) is a fourth-generation Colorado native who has led the Colorado Forum, a diverse membership of business and civic leaders who work to achieve good public policy results for Colorado, since 1989. Her civic leadership experience spans from the White House to the Governor’s Cabinet, and she currently serves on the Boards of Gold, Inc. and Great-West Funds, Inc.
Gregory Moore (Editor-in-Chief of Deke Digital and former Editor, Denver Post) leads Deke’s efforts to position business executives and entrepreneurs as experts through published content in national and trade publications. Previously, he spent 14 years as editor of the Denver Post. During that time, the newspaper rose in prominence, winning four consecutive Pulitzer Prizes. He is a member of the board of the Boettcher Foundation, the University of Denver, America Succeeds, the Emily Griffith Foundation and Polaris, the anti-human trafficking organization based in Washington, D.C.
Judy Muller (former network TV news correspondent and USC Annenberg journalism professor) is an Emmy, duPont-Columbia, and Peabody Award-winning journalist and regular NPR commentator who currently resides most of the year in Norwood, Colorado. She worked as a national correspondent for ABC News starting in 1990, and previously worked for CBS News. She taught at University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism from 2003 until retiring in 2017 as Professor Emeritus. She is the author of two books: Emus Loose in Egnar: Big Stories from Small Towns (2011) and Now This: Radio, Television—and the Real World (2000).
Lynn Schofield Clark (Professor, Chair and Director of the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media at DU) is co-author (with Regina Marchi) of the award-winning book, “Young People and the Future of News”. Known for her work in advancing diverse youth voices through digital media in university-community partnerships, Clark’s efforts have been supported with grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the MacArthur foundation. On Twitter: @LynnSchofClark
Scott Stemberger (Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group - Denver) has 20 years of experience in software, IT and telecom. Since joining BCG in 2004, he has worked predominantly in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice across a range of topics including growth strategy, operational improvement, M&A / corporate development, private equity due diligence, turnarounds, go-to-market, organizational design, transformation.
Gary Steuer (President and CEO, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation) leverages the voice and legacy of the Foundation to sustain and strengthen the arts and nonprofit leadership in our community. Prior to joining BSF, Gary served as the Chief Cultural Officer and Director of the Office of Arts, Culture & the Creative Economy for the City of Philadelphia. He also served as Vice President and Executive Director for Americans for the Arts in New York.
John Temple (Director, Investigative Reporting Program, University of California - Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism) is an award-winning newspaper editor and journalism innovator. He has served as managing editor of the Washington Post and editor and general manager of Honolulu Civil Beat. Under his watch as editor, president and publisher of the Rocky Mountain News from 1998 until it ceased publication in 2009, the newspaper won four Pulitzer prizes.
Nancy Watzman (First Draft News and former CMP Director) is an award-winning investigative journalist, researcher, strategist, and 20-year Denver resident who works on the cusp of technology and journalism. She served as founding director for the Colorado Media Project throughout 2019, and her career spans work with the Internet Archive, the Sunlight Foundation, the Center for Public Integrity, the Center for Responsive Politics, and the Democracy Fund. She worked as editor for the Knight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy, which in 2018 explored how to improve trust in democracy and concluded that a key lever is strengthening local journalism nationwide. She is co-author of Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? Washington on $2 Million a Day (2004) and a contributor to The Buying of the Congress: by the Center for Public Integrity (1998).