Alex Gutierrez joined the Alliance Center Board in 2026. Alex is a senior outreach manager for Denver’s Mayor Mike Johnston, with over a decade of campaign organizing experience—including Johnston's mayoral run, where he served as Regional Organizing Director.

Ellen Kutzer joined the Alliance Center Board of Directors in 2026. Ellen is an energy attorney whose career spans the Colorado Attorney General's Office, Western Resource Advocates, and most recently General Counsel for the Colorado Solar and Storage Association, where she shaped legal strategy through some of Colorado's most consequential clean energy decisions.

Anna Park Moon joined the Alliance Center Board in 2026. Anna is Vice President of Business Development at Collective Clean Energy Fund, where she leads partner engagement and project development across Colorado's clean energy sector.

Patti Mason joined the Alliance Center Board in 2026. Patti is a Senior Climate Action Strategist at DLR Group, where she has spent the past three years developing and launching a climate strategy initiative within a 100% employee-owned integrated design firm.

Jonathan Lyons joined the Alliance Center Board in 2026. Jonathan is the founder of Among & Between, an independent advisory firm that helps climate and clean energy companies scale.

Every year, millions of Americans miss their chance to vote for one simple reason: they were never registered in the first place! National Voter Registration Day, coming up on September 15, 2026, exists to close that gap; and this year, the Alliance Center is proud to support civic engagement.

For the Alliance Center’s second 2026  Lunch, Unpacked session, we turned the lens on the media itself; asking what a truly free press means today, and what happens when it's put under pressure.

Electric vehicles are only one piece of the shift away from fossil fuels. At this month's Lunch, Unpacked, LaSheita Sayer and Bobbi Solis, each working a different piece of the EV puzzle—workforce and infrastructure—shared what's really happening on the ground.

Every year, we ask the Alliance community, “is the Alliance actually making a difference in your work and your life?” This year, more of you answered our survey than ever before, and what you told us was worth celebrating!

In our Changemakers We Admire series, we highlight partners planting seeds of transformation in their communities.This month, we’re spotlighting Jordan D Renken, a former educator, workforce development advocate, and champion for structural community solutions.