Kelby is driven to make her home state of Colorado a more sustainable and equitable place. Her passion to encourage others to do their part in lessening their impact on the environment comes from her love for the outdoors. After studying sustainability locally at the University of Denver and internationally in Thailand, Kelby learned the importance of educating local communities about environmental issues we are all facing. Outside of The Alliance Center, she loves to be out in nature doing anything from snow kiting to mountain biking!

Originally from Virginia‘s Shenandoah Valley, Cori moved to Denver in 2018 and has since found her community within The Alliance Center walls. With a background in hospitality management and environmental studies, she finds a strong sense of purpose in helping others and exploring earth’s most natural landscape. During a thru hike of the Appalachian Trail, Cori became extremely in tune with how little we actually need to be happy. She stands by the motto, "less is more," and knows it is one major way that we can live more in accordance with nature than in conflict. When not at work, she is likely outside and along a trail!

Ashley‘s path to The Alliance Center was winding, and she is thrilled that the road led her to this great community of conservationists, activists, environmentalists and life-long learners. Ashley studied environmental science as an undergraduate at the University of Denver and while she fell in love with science, her passion for people and communication quickly took over her career trajectory. After working with the National Park Service as a consultant, Ashley went back to school and completed her master’s degree in human dimensions of natural resources and her PhD in environmental sociology at Colorado State University, all while working with a variety of National Park Service units. Ashley oversees the marketing, communications, educational programming and strategic partnerships for the organization.

Isabel grew up surrounded by the natural beauty of tropics in her native Ecuador. It was inevitable she decided to become a biologist very early in life. As the realization of that dream, Isabel holds a bachelor‘s degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from University of Colorado Boulder and a master’s in environmental science and policy from Johns Hopkins University. The combination of field work, GIS and her experience growing up in areas with high poverty allows her to understand the nuances of complex environmental issues and to find creative ways to solve them. When Isabel is not creating fun maps for The Alliance Center, she can be found wandering the world, looking for a new upcycling project, gardening or snuggling her loving pets.

Jason has always been attracted to market-based solutions to hard, important problems. This led him to pursue a degree in finance and economics before spending his early career focused on impact investing, microfinance and fair trade topics domestically and abroad. His international experiences in south and east Asia ultimately led him back home to focus on sustainability challenges in his home state. A LEED Accredited Professional, Jason oversaw The Alliance Center‘s award winning, LEED Platinum building renovation and has been responsible for maximizing the impact of The Alliance Center’s collaborative shared working space and green building efforts ever since. Jason also oversees all of our organization’s various systems to make our team and wider community as effective as possible. When not supporting The Alliance Center community, Jason is on the ground playing with his three young kids and getting outside the city limits as much as possible.

Jonathan is the resident “numbers guy” at The Alliance Center and appreciates how simple actions incorporated into daily routines, like composting, biking to work, or reusing coffee cups, add up over a lifetime. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees in accounting from Saint Louis University and rounded out his education with a year spent volunteering abroad. This helped shape his world views related to treating fellow humans and our planet with dignity and respect. Jonathan joined the Alliance to better align his career with his personal interests after several years in the public accounting grind. He is a Certified Public Accountant and brings a variety of transactional and industry accounting knowledge to his role. When he’s not immersed in a spreadsheet, you can find him taking advantage of the year-round outdoor opportunities Colorado has to offer.

Brenna works day in and day out to create an equitable, inclusive and sustainable future. With a background in corporate social responsibility, she spent over 10 years developing and implementing sustainability programs for some of the world’s leading hotel brands. Her endless passion to create a better future drove her to the nonprofit realm. She has served on Denver Mayor‘s Sustainability Advisory Council as well as the University of Colorado’s Managing for Sustainability Advisory Council since 2014. Brenna was named one of the top 25 Most Influential Young Professionals in 2015 and received the City of Denver’s Community Builder Sustainability Award in 2017. As a Colorado native, Brenna loves spending any free time she has in nature. From rock climbing to white water rafting, you name the outdoor activity, and there is a good chance of finding it on Brenna’s roll call for adventure.

With a bachelor‘s degree in journalism and mass communications and English, a master’s in nonprofit management and a life-long passion for sustainability, Moira has found the perfect way to meld all three into a career at The Alliance Center. She’s a vegetarian, an avid public transit advocate, a believer in the power of community and an idealist whose committed to getting things done. When she‘s done telling The Alliance Center’s powerful stories for the day, you can catch her reading, exploring new breweries and dreaming of her next travel adventure.