Founding Leadership Team
In 2014, several foundations provided financial support and participated in the process to design and launch Early Milestones Colorado. Our founding leadership team is composed of the following early childhood funders and experts.
Letty Bass
ConsultantFormer Executive Director, Merle Chambers FundElsa Holguín
President & CEO, Denver Preschool ProgramFormer Senior Program Officer, Child & Family Development, Rose Community FoundationSarah Park
Community Systems Lead, Wend CollectiveFormer Director of Education, The Denver FoundationCindy Schulz
Former Executive Director, Cydney and Tom Marsico Family FoundationJennifer Stedron
Executive Director, Early Milestones ColoradoFormer ConsultantSusan Steele
President & CEO, Buell FoundationPast Board Members
Anne Anderson
International Social Impact ConsultantLetty Bass, Past Secretary
ConsultantElsa Holguín, Past Chair
President & CEODenver Preschool ProgramLaura Love
Founder and Chief Cultural OfficerGround Floor MediaFernando Martinez
CEOSan Luis Valley Behavioral Health GroupWill McConathy
PresidentTerracoreRico Munn
SuperintendentAurora Public SchoolsCindy Schulz
Former Executive DirectorCydney and Tom Marsico Family FoundationSusan Steele, Past Treasurer
President & CEOBuell FoundationTimothy Wolf
PresidentWolf Investments, Inc.History of Early Childhood Systems in Colorado
Learn more about progress made in Colorado’s early childhood systems over the past three decades through Early Milestones Colorado’s expansive and in-depth report, Looking to the Past to Shape Colorado’s Future: 30 Years of Progress for Children and Families.
