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Connect with regional and state experts

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A coalition of mitigation and adaptation professionals is rapidly growing across Colorado. The collective mission to support businesses and communities in accelerated climate action is a strong ethos that binds interagency collaboration. Check back to this page as we continue to add regional and state experts here to support local communities in their resilience journey.

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Jenifer Lewis (Email)
Interagency Tribal Liaison,
Office of the Lt. Governor

Kathryn Redhorse (Email)
Executive Director

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Sam Anderson (Email)
Energy Specialist

Kristen Boysen (Email)
Drought & Climate Specialist

Jordan Beezley (Email)
Policy Advisor

Cindy Lair (Email)
State Conservation Board Program Manager

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Matthew Robinson (Email)
Energy Program Administrator

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Susan Blansett (Email)
Colorado Rural Workforce Consortium

Thomas Hartman (Email)
Colorado Workforce Development Council, Career Pathways Lead

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Kay Kelly (Email)
Chief of the Office of Innovative Mobility
Interagency Climate Team Lead

Michael King (Email)
Assistant Director of Electrification and Energy
Division of Transit and Rail 

Theresa Takushi (Email)
Greenhouse Gas Climate Action Specialist

Nathan Lindquist (Email)
Land Use Planner & Analyst

Nathan Vander Broek (Email)
Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Manager

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Lauren McDonell (Email)
Climate Change Outreach Planner
Interagency Climate Team Lead

Clay Clarke (Email)
Climate Unit Supervisor

Cate Townley (Email)
Built Environment Specialist

Steve McCannon (Email)
Mobile Sources Program Director

Andrew Bare (Email)
Communications Specialist

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Christine Berg (Email)
Senior Policy Advisor, Local Government
Interagency Climate Team Lead

Maria Eisemann (Email)
Senior Transportation Policy Analyst

Kim Burke (Email)
Senior Program Manager

Eric Lowe (Email)
Senior Data Analyst

Kelly Blynn (Email)
Transportation Climate Specialist

Heatheryn Higgins (Email)
Communications Director

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Megan Holcomb (Email)
Senior Climate Specialist
Interagency Climate Team Lead

Angela Boag (Email)
Assistant Director for Climate, Forest Health and Energy
Interagency Climate Team Lead

Nate Pearson (Email)
Recovery Officer

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Anne Miller (Email)
Colorado Resiliency Office Director
Interagency Climate Team Lead

Marguerite Harden (Email)
Local Resiliency Manager

Morgan Ferris (Email)
Economic Recovery Project Manager

Tim Katers (Email)
Energy & Mineral Impact Assistance Program

Andrew Paredes (Email)
Director of Housing Finance and Sustainability

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James Cullen (Email)
Director of Public Relations

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Katharina Papenbrock (Email)
Rural Representative

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Mark Silberg (Email)
Special Advisor, Climate and Energy

Jonathan Asher (Email)
Senior Policy Advisor, Natural Resources and Environment

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John Kelly (Email)
Serve Colorado Executive Director 

A Wildly Important Priority of the Polis Administration is to "Set Colorado on a path to 100% renewable energy for the grid by 2040 and position Colorado as a leader in the clean energy economy." The Governor's Environment and Renewables Cabinet Working Group is the cross agency body leading state action on this priority.
 

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Russ Schumacher (Email) (Website)
Director, Colorado Climate Center and Colorado State Climatologist

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Climate Adaptation Partnership (Email) (Website)

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Western Water Assessment (Website

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Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (Website)

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North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (Website

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Drought Advisors (Email) (Website)