Early Milestones Colorado is a nonprofit organization that advances success for young children by accelerating innovation, the use of best practices, and systemic change. We work to ensure that all children and families, especially those who have been historically marginalized, have access to the opportunities and resources needed to be valued, healthy, and thriving. Learn more about our commitment and our core principles.
Mission
& Vision
OurHistory
In the early 2000s, hundreds of stakeholders created a plan to increase coordination and generate better results across the early childhood system. Since then, Colorado has made great progress in implementing this plan, called the “three-legged stool.” Launched in 2015 by a group of Colorado’s leading early childhood funders, Early Milestones serves as the third “leg” — an agile, flexible nonprofit to support local and state efforts, accelerate public goals, spur innovation, and work toward sustainable, large-scale impact.
Early Milestones was a proud recipient of the 2019 El Pomar Foundation Award for Excellence.
OurTeam
Our team offers a combined 86 years of work in the field of early childhood and over 130 years of service in health, early care and learning, education, family social work, local and state government, strategic communications, finance, and law. Early Milestones staff include Buell Early Childhood Leadership Fellows; a Colorado Civic DNA Fellow; a Denver Court Appointed Special Advocate; hikers and travelers; musicians, crafters, and athletes; and parents, aunts, and uncles.

Tricia Bonman
Director of Strategic Initiatives
Laura Freeman Cenegy
Director of Research
Emily Landes
Senior Project Manager
Kacee Miller
Senior Director of Implementation
Jennifer Merva Stedron
Executive Director
Jennifer Nash
Director of Operations
Catherine Portillo
Executive Assistant
LaRae Renz
Accounting ManagerOur
Board ofDirectors

Rosemarie Allen
President & CEOInstitute for Racial Equity and Excellence
Chris Bracken
PrincipalGemmone Resources
Yee-Ann Cho, Chair
Board Chair
Colleen Church, Treasurer
Deputy DirectorLudeman Family Center for Women's Health Research at CU Anschutz Medical Campus
Steffanie Clothier
Investment Director – Child DevelopmentGary Community Ventures
David Ari Collins
Senior Lead AttorneyJones Law Firm, PC
Jacquie Hall
Former Senior Director of Principal and Planned GiftsCraig Hospital Foundation
Sylvia Kamau-Small
Health Equity & Community Engagement ManagerAdams County Health Department
Annie Lee
President & CEOColorado Access
Patricia Lepiani, Secretary
PresidentThe Idea Marketing
Tyler Mounsey
Director of Legislative AffairsColorado Bar Association
Bruno Sobral
ProfessorColorado School of Public Health, Colorado State University
Maria Tarajano Rodman
Executive DirectorValley SettlementOurPartners


