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Meeting time: 10:00am - hybrid

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.

7:00-8:30 pm

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.

Please contact the Operations Coordinator at admin@lwvbc.org if you‘d like to attend this meeting.