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Membership meeting to discuss Program Planning (aka the League‘s process of adding or amending positions for advocacy)

Inaugural meeting of the LWVCO Immigration Task Force

Louise Myrland, Vice President of Programs for the Women‘s Foundation of Colorado, will present their recently-released report: The Status of Women: Colorado Snapshot. Produced in partnership with the Institute for Women‘s Policy Research, the report revealed mixed economic indicators for women int he state and recommends protecting policies promoting equity, such as Medicaid the Family Affordability Tax Credit, and the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.

Hear from Laura-Elana Porras, Health & Coverage Program Director, Doctors Care.

Our statewide Town Hall invites Coloradans into an open conversation about democratic resilience and what strengthens it, what threatens it, and how communities can respond together. Rather than formal presentations, this session centers community experience, cross-issue insight, and shared problem-solving.

Chairs and members from LWVCO’s ten Task Forces will help guide this conversation, drawing from their work in voting rights, climate, news access, gun violence prevention, health equity, reproductive freedom, housing, education, and justice. Participants will explore what democratic resilience requires across Colorado’s diverse communities and how collective action can build a stronger civic landscape.

Together, we will elevate community wisdom and identify strategies for meeting the moment, and protecting democracy where it lives: with the people.

Come see the new LWVD Youth Council Civics Education and Mock Election Program in action.

Join us for a forward-looking conversation about the systems, movements, and cultural forces shaping the future of democracy in Colorado and beyond. This closing session brings together organizers, civic leaders, and narrative strategists to explore what tomorrow’s democratic landscape may require.

• Niedi Dominguez, Founding Executive Director, Organized Power In Numbers
A nationally respected labor and community organizer, Dominguez will speak to movement-building, economic justice, and how long-term civic participation is cultivated and sustained.

• Portia Prescott, Founder & Managing Member, Prescott Solutions; Former Regional President, Colorado NAACP
Prescott offers a civil rights and equity perspective, highlighting how representation, community leadership, and grassroots advocacy will shape democracy’s next chapter.

• Rita M. Rufino Valente-Quinn, Ph.D., Producing Executive Director, Motus Theater
Valente-Quinn brings an artistic and narrative lens, exploring how performance, storytelling, and lived experience influence public understanding, empathy, and democratic engagement.

Bobbie Heisterkamp will host

The LWV favors a system where fiduciary responsibility (for such programs) is to patients and the public. Because private for-profit corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders rather than to patients or public health, the League believes the for-profit business model for healthcare is inappropriate for the common good or to meet the basic needs of the most vulnerable members of society. In sum, the League opposes further privatization of needed healthcare.