About me
My husband came from Los Angeles, and I came from New York. We met in Washington, moved out here, and we’ve lived in Lakewood since the 1980s. We love the west side, and we just absolutely love Colorado.
I went to the University of Colorado, and I left with a business degree and an education degree.
My resume is pretty diverse. I worked as a pastor at Lakewood Christian Church, I was an organic farmer, and I taught business classes to high school classes in Boulder and Australia.
World traveler
During my 20s, 30s and 40s, I traveled all around the world. I met all walks of life from people in affluent European countries, to areas that struggled with poverty like Nepal and Thailand. Seeing these things changed me, and I have an understanding that not all people live like suburban dwellers do in the United States.
Jeffco Eats
I kept going to community meetings, and people were saying children were struggling with hunger on the weekends. I kept asking people if someone was going to feed the kids in Lakewood. No one was doing it. Then I thought that maybe I needed to do it. That is when Jeffco Eats was born.
I’m the executive director for Jeffco Eats, and I’m the person who started it. We feed kids in Lakewood, Wheat Ridge, Edgewater and Arvada, and we’re trying to make sure that families don’t go hungry on the weekends. We feed around 400 children a week.
Our next goal is to help feed refugees. This past holiday season, we held a food drive for families from Congo and Afghanistan. We are planning on bringing food to these families every month now, and we want the community to help.
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