RELEASE: Emerge Colorado Announces 2022 Signature Class
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, December 6, 2021 Contact: Lisa Calderón lisa@emergeco.org (720) 505-4293 RELEASE: Emerge Colorado Announces 2022 Signature Class Denver, CO (December 6,… Read More
COVER STORY: THE TRAINING GROUND | Colorado’s left focuses on diversity and building the bench
If you want to run for office, you have to know what you’re doing. That was the message state Rep. Brianna Titone, D-Arvada, delivered to an eager audience of thousands of Democrats during a September Zoom panel on running and winning in a red district. The national event was hosted… Read More
INSIGHTS | House trailblazer Brianna Titone burns up the political spaces
It seems like no time ago that I didn’t give Brianna Titone much of a thought or much of a chance in Colorado politics. I was mistaken. Her political star continues to ascend, so add Joey B to the list of doubters Titone has proven wrong. The two-term state representative… Read More
Honoring Emerge Colorado Alumna, Cynthia Brashears (Wake)
Dear Emerge Colorado Family, The Emerge Colorado team is sad to share the news that our alumna and former member of our Board of Directors, Cynthia Brashears (Wake), passed away earlier this week from cancer. Cynthia was a member of our inaugural Emerge… Read More
COVER STORY | Meet Iman Jodeh, Colorado’s first Muslim and Palestinian-American lawmaker
Rep. Iman Jodeh, D-Aurora, finds being a member of the Colorado House almost surreal. The first Muslim and Palestinian-American elected to the Colorado General Assembly said she never considered running for elected office before it all just fell together. “I’m not used to it yet,” she said in an interview… Read More
Coloradans elect first Muslim, first African immigrant to state legislature
First-time voter and Aurora resident Nawal Elsayad was sitting with her dad in front of the TV around 10 p.m. on election night, watching the results as they came in. Elsayad was fixated on the screen for updates on the presidential election, but there was one local race that was… Read More
INSIGHTS | Women voters are the new force in politics, and Colorado leads the way
Kamala Harris is the face of this year’s election, but she doesn’t stand alone. Women of color are the political force capable of reshaping the American political landscape the way it’s already configured Colorado. Two days before the election, our Ernest Luning reported the… Read More
THE AURORA EVOLUTION | Colorado’s third-largest city has changed its political stripes
In less than five years, Aurora transformed from a reliably Republican city to a decidedly progressive Democrat-controlled one. Two recent elections sealed the new political power structure: In 2018 Arapahoe County voters handed Democratic candidates most all major political seats and the 2019 Aurora City Council election that… Read More