Events - Week View

Join us as presenter Grace Lynch, NEA Organizing Fellow, Colorado Education Association, gives us a statewide perspective of the Colorado Public School Education by a local educator.

Topics include:
- Privatization Efforts
- Statewide Funding
- Teacher Union‘s Perspective

Grace Lynch earned her Master of Education from Regis University. She began her career in Westminster Public Schools, where she student-taught and then spent three years teaching middle-school English Language Arts. After moving to Grand Junction, she taught middle-school English as a Second Language for another three years. This year, she was selected as an NEA Organizing Fellow, a national program that releases educators from the classroom for a year to train as union organizers.

Join us for a dynamic conversation exploring how power is shaped, checked, and challenged in a healthy democracy. This panel brings together leaders from law, government oversight, and the arts to examine how institutions and individuals hold authority to account.

• Justice Richard Gabriel, Colorado Supreme Court
Justice Gabriel offers a front-row view of how judicial decisions uphold constitutional principles, protect individual rights, and serve as a critical check within our system of separated powers.

• Donald K. Sherman, Executive Director & Chief Counsel, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
A national expert on government ethics, corruption, and accountability, Sherman brings deep insight into how watchdog organizations confront abuses of power and defend democratic norms at the federal level.

• Ravi Zupa, Artist & Cultural Commentator
Through provocative, cross-disciplinary work, Zupa explores themes of authority, resistance, and civic responsibility. His artistic perspective adds a crucial dimension to how culture can reveal — and rebalance — power.

Together, they will examine how legal, civic, and creative forces shape our shared understanding of power in a democracy — and what it means to safeguard it.

A conversation with Denver Water‘s conservation and efficiency team. We’ll explore the nuances of our complex water management issues here in the West while recognizing the many diverse stakeholders who rely on the Colorado and other rivers for Denver residents’ water consumption and food production.