Position Announcement: Development Director
The mission of the Colorado Center on Law and Policy (CCLP) is to secure justice and promote economic security for all Coloradans,...
Who We Are
Christine Murphy, Executive Director
Christine Murphy's experience uniquely positions her to build on the agency's record of defending the interests of the poor, the working poor and other vulnerable populations. She joined CCLP in June 2010 after serving as a senior policy analyst in Gov. Bill Ritter's Office of Policy and Initiatives. Formerly the executive director of the Colorado Lawyers Committee, she is an attorney with extensive experience in civil rights, poverty and appellate law. Ms. Murphy has also been an active volunteer with nonprofit agencies that promote public education and affordable housing.
cmurphy@cclponline.org
303-573-5669 ext. 301
Elisabeth Arenales, Director, Health Care Program
Ms. Arenales has been director of the Colorado Center on Law and Policy’s Health Care Program since January 2000. She has a track record of protecting, preserving and expanding access to healthcare, particularly for lower-income Coloradans. She advocates at the Legislature and before the Medical Services Board. She was a founder and served for six years as board chair of the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative. She served as a consumer representative on the Colorado Blue Ribbon Commission on Health Care Reform. Prior to working at CCLP, Ms. Arenales was staff attorney for the Colorado Lawyers Committee, where she focused on access to education, particularly in rural areas of Colorado. She also spent one year coordinating complex litigation related to the rights of landowners in and around San Luis, Colo., to access land known then as the Taylor Ranch. Ms. Arenales graduated from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1993. She serves on the Advisory Committee for the Ombudsman for Medicaid Managed Care, the Advisory Board of Family Voices Colorado, and is a member of The Denver Foundation’s Health Committee. Ms. Arenales has been recognized by organizations including the University of Colorado (Law School Alumni Award for Distinguished Achievement), the Colorado Bar Association (Donald Hoagland Award), and Trial Lawyers for Public Justice (Trial Lawyer of the Year). In 2006, Ms. Arenales was recognized as a community health leader by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
earenales@cclponline.org
303-573-5669 ext. 302
Ed Kahn, Special Counsel
The former president of CCLP’s Board of Directors, Mr. Kahn left the board in 2004 to join the staff as special counsel. Mr. Kahn brings extensive legal experience to CCLP. As a partner at Kelly Garnsey Hubbell and Lass, LLC, he tried numerous business and employment cases. He also has arbitrated more than 100 cases involving franchises, contracts, health care, business acquisitions, securities, rules of the Olympics, insurance contracts, consumer finance and educational testing. Mr. Kahn also has extensive experience in pro bono and public interest matters. He represented the public interest in obtaining $155 million for a conversion foundation after lobbying for a statute governing conversion to for-profit status of Colorado Blue Cross and other health insurers; was special counsel, appointed by the Colorado Supreme Court, to investigate possible mismanagement by the State Public Defender; and was appointed as special counsel by Boulder County District Court Judge Murray Richtel to prosecute the Boulder Daily Camera and two reporters for improper contacts with jurors in a death penalty criminal case. Mr. Kahn also represented the Colorado General Assembly in an action securing a ruling that legislation concerning confidentiality of grand jury reports took precedence over a supreme court rule. Mr. Kahn received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and BA from the University of Colorado. His civic and professional activities include: fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers; Martindale-Hubbell "AV" rating; listed in "Best Lawyers in America" for more than 20 years; Commercial Arbitration Panel of American Arbitration Association; practitioner-in-residence, University of Denver Law School, spring 2000; cecturer in constitutional law, University of Colorado School of Law (1975); Colorado Supreme Court Grievance Committee (1996-99), and Hearing Board 1999 to present; Colorado Supreme Court Judicial Advisory Committee (1994-2000); Colorado Lawyers Trust Account Foundation (COLTAF) (Director 1990-95) (president 1990-92); Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Denver (acting director of litigation five months in 1994); Denver Bar Association (president 1984-85); Colorado Bar Association and Denver Bar Association (various activities, including board membership); Colorado Lawyers Committee (co-founder, 1978 and director from time to time); American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado (board member 1967-72, chair of the board for two years), and member of its Legal Panel 2001 to present; Harvard Law School Association of Colorado (president 1989-90); and board member, Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, 2000 to present.
ekahn@cclponline.org
303-573-5669 ext. 305
Rita Young, Director of Adminstration
Rita Young joined the center in June 2006. She brings more than 25 years experience in nonprofit office and business management and oversees the daily operations of the center. Before joining the center Ms. Young was the administrative assistant and board liaison for the Clayton Foundation and Clayton Family Futures in Denver and was instrumental in the Clayton Campus receiving listing with the National Register of Historic Places. Before the Clayton Foundation she was administrative assistant for Colorado Legal Services in Denver.
ryoung@cclponline.org
303-573-5669 ext. 307
Adela Flores-Brennan, Health Care Attorney
Adela Flores-Brennan has worked for the Colorado Center on Law and Policy and the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute for more than six years on issues including tax and budget policy, economic self-sufficiency, federal budget advocacy and program reauthorizations, health reform, and litigation concerning the Colorado Benefits Management System. Ms. Flores-Brennan is a graduate of the University of Colorado School of Law (JD 2005), and the University of Denver (master’s degree 1999, bachelor’s degree 1998). Her previous experience includes policy and advocacy work related to the environment and higher education, as well as clerkships in Denver District Court.
afbrennan@cclponline.org
303-573-5669 ext. 313
Tracey Stewart, Economic Self-Sufficiency Program Coordinator
Tracey Stewart monitors updates for the Colorado Self-Sufficiency Standard tables and the Colorado Self-Sufficiency Calculator. She promotes use of the Self-Sufficiency Standard as a tool for measuring the economic health of Colorado’s families. Ms. Stewart uses her 20-year background in outreach and marketing as she travels around Colorado informing and educating individuals, nonprofits, state and local governments, businesses and educational institutions about the value of the Self-Sufficiency Standard and the calculator. Before joining the Colorado Center on Law and Policy, Ms. Stewart worked with Colorado Coalition for the Homeless where she was the project manager for the Colorado Homeless Management Information System. Before her career in the nonprofit world, Ms. Stewart was a network consultant and software application specialist. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and a master’s from the School of Education at the University of Denver. She is also a volunteer board member for the Delores Project, a participant of the Bus 15 Coalition, and a member of the Denver Human Services Network.
tstewart@cclponline.org
303-573-5669 ext. 314
Carol Hedges, director, Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute
Carol Hedges is a recognized expert on the effects of Colorado’s TABOR amendment. Her current research explores spending and taxation in Colorado in light of fairness, efficiency and adequacy. Ms. Hedges has experience in the philanthropic sector and in political service with former Colorado Gov. Roy Romer, the National Governors’ Association and with Gov. John Carlin of Kansas. Ms. Hedges holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Affairs from Emporia State University and a law degree from the University of Kansas. She is a board member for the FRESC Good Jobs Strong Communities in Denver. She is a member of the Colorado Nonprofit Association’s Leadership Advisory Committee and served on the Technical Advisory Committee for Gov. Bill Ritter’s Blue Ribbon Transportation Panel. She represents COFPI on the Colorado Reform Roundtable as a convener and as a co-chair of the Fiscal Reform Subcommittee. Carol is a founding member of the Steering Committee of the Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable.
chedges@cclponline.org
303-573-5669 ext. 309
Kathy A. White, deputy project director, Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute
Kathy White worked as a paralegal and assistant manager of regulatory compliance for an international insurance company before working for CCLP. In that position, she coordinated compliance reporting for five companies offering health products in 50 states, tracked and analyzed health care legislation at the national and state levels, and conducted legal research to help in development policies and procedures. She also created a position and was research coordinator for a department of six attorneys and six paralegals. Before that, Ms. White worked as a commercial real estate paralegal and volunteer for the American Civil Liberties Union.
kwhite@cclponline.org
303-573-5669 ext. 303
Ali Mickelson, Tax Policy Analyst, Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute
Ali Mickelson comes to the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute after working primarily in corporate tax consulting. She has a law degree from the University of Denver College of Law and a post-graduate law degree in taxation from the University of Denver Graduate Tax Program. Ms. Mickelson has been involved in a variety of initiatives to assist low-income taxpayers, including leadership in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program and participation in the administration and development of a Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic in Denver.
amickelson@cclponline.org
303-573-5669 ext. 304
Mark Neuman-Lee, Outreach Coordinator, Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute
Mr. Neuman-Lee joined the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute as a policy fellow following his graduation from Colorado College in 2009. In 2010, following the conclusion of his fellowship, the agency hired him as an outreach coordinator supporting the activities of the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute. At Colorado College, he majored in International Political Economy and was active in student leadership, serving as the student body president during his senior year. Before arriving at CCLP, Mr. Neuman-Lee worked on several campaigns and completed an internship with Lt. Gov. Barbara O’Brien.
mneumanlee@cclponline.org
303-573-5669 ext. 310
Alec Harris, Fiscal Policy Analyst, Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute
Before joining CCLP, Mr. Harris studied economics at the University of Michigan, where he worked in the environmental and natural resource economics realm. In his research at the university, he examined the county-level fiscal impact and labor market effects of Spotted Owl protection under the Northwest Forest Plan. Today, Mr. Harris studies the Colorado economic and fiscal outlook and produces meaningful analysis and policy solutions for Colorado.
aharris@cclponline.org
303-573-5669 ext. 316
Terry Scanion, Fiscal Policy Analyst, Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute
Terry Scanlon is the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute’s lead budget analyst. Before joining COFPI in January 2010, he worked in a variety of roles including serving as a legislative aide at the Colorado Capitol and managing a state legislative campaign. The bulk of his professional experience was spent in newsrooms in Virginia and Colorado highlighting how public policies affect people’s lives. Mr. Scanlon holds a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., and a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Colorado at Denver.
tscanlon@cclponline.org
303-573-5669 ext. 311
Perry Swanson, Communications Director
Perry Swanson joined CCLP in February 2010. He is responsible for alerting a statewide audience to the center's agenda of justice and economic security for all Coloradans. He handles media relations and coordinates all the center's communications. Before joining CCLP, Perry was a reporter for The Gazette newspaper of Colorado Springs. He holds bachelor's degree in journalism from Metropolitan State College of Denver.
pswanson@cclponline.org
303-573-5669 ext. 306
Recent Publications
July 12, 2010
January 01, 2010
2008-09 Annual Report
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January 01, 2008
2007 Annual Report
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January 01, 2007
2006 Annual Report
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