FrontRange Board of Directors

Kit Ambrose, President

Kit, a 3rd generation Colorado native, has been in IT consulting for 14 years, and before that was a school teacher in Boston where he taught Math and Woodworking to 7 - 12 graders. He is currently employed with Microsoft Corporation and has a wonderful family including his wife, Lori, and 2 sons, Spencer and Lincoln. Kit is the chair of the Alumni Fundraising for the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, and was a Steering Committee member for Social Venture Partners of Denver.

Jimmy Miller, Treasurer

Jimmy has extensive experience in all aspects of the banking industry. He has strong community connections, and serves on wide variety of non-profit boards, including the Urban League and the national Earth Force office.

Nicole Veltze, Secretary

Nicole is the Principal of Skinner Middle School. She joined the board in March of 2005, but has been a longtime advocate of Earth Force programs in several schools in Northeast Denver. While serving as principal of Cole Middle School during the 2003-04 school year, Nicole was instrumental in working with FrontRange Earth Force to develop the Cole Middle School reform model.

Lisa Bardwell

Asia Dorsey

A student at Thomas Jefferson High School, Asia Dorsey first exposure to Earth Force was as a participant in Earth Walk. Since that first experience with our organization, Asia joined our Youth Action Board in 2005, before going on to join our Board of Directors.

Dave Fulton

David Fulton, Ph.D. is the Assistant Principal at Skyland Community High School. A former high school math and history teacher, he remains interested in ways to engage students in authentic learning, which is why he is proud to serve on the board of FrontRange Earth Force.

Mark Kay

Mark has over fifteen years of business experience in areas of manufacturing, software, consulting, and business development and is currently employed by Deloitte Services LP. He joined the Earth Force board in 2004 because of the organization’s ability to engage kids as problem solvers and involved citizens of their schools and communities. Mark holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. He, his wife, and their three children live in Lakewood, Colorado.

Jill Lancelot

Jill Lancelot is co-founder and Legislative Director of Taxpayers for Common $ense. For over two decades, Ms. Lancelot has been the most relentless and successful activist working on behalf of the American taxpayer to stop wasteful pork barrel spending. Since 1974, she has spearheaded dozens of major and minor victories that have saved the taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. She also created and directed the Subsidy Reform Project of that organization's research and education arm, the National Taxpayers Union Foundation. She has broad policy knowledge of subsidies in numerous areas including energy, water, forestry, transportation, agriculture and the military.

Genaro Mercado Perea

Genaro Mercado Perea is a 13-year veteran of Denver Public Schools. He started as an elementary school special education teacher and currently serves as an itinerant teacher for gifted and talented students at four elementary schools in the DPS system.

Genaro was born and raised in Ojo Caliente, Zacatecas, Mexico and is a strong advocate for the arts in education. Each year he takes groups of students from each of his schools to perform in the DPS Shakespeare Festival in Denver. And, beginning the summer of 2009, he is launching Instituto Global, an arts-based summer school for at-risk boys and girls in his hometown of Ojo Caliente.

Lori Potter

Lori Potter has been an environmental lawyer in Denver for 25 years, first with the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund and currently as a partner at the firm of Kaplan Kirsch Rockwell. Lori’s children attended Denver Public Schools, and she has been a Fulbright scholar in India, makes a great pesto, a bicycle commuter and participates in the Ride the Rockies every year.

Kendra Sandoval

Kendra Sandoval, a native Denverite, has served diverse communities in teaching, social justice, and environmental activism for over fifteen years. She was the Northwest Community Liaison for Mayor Webb and an intern with Greenprint Denver. Previously, Kendra served as Outreach Director with Alliance for Sustainable Colorado which is catalyzing a shift toward sustainability by fostering collaboration among business, non-profit, academia and government. Kendra now heads her own social enterprise organization - Blue and Yellow Logic - where she provides consultancy on sustainability and ecological issues.

Terry Vartanyan

Terry Vartanyan is an independent business owner of a State Farm agency in Denver, Colorado. Terry has always had a passion for improving financial literacy through education. She has an ongoing outreach effort to schools and community leaders in the Highland neighborhood offering training materials to teachers and volunteering. Terry recently held a board position with a local neighborhood association HUNI (Highland United Neighbors, Inc. Terry lives in Denver and enjoys many outdoor activities, especially cycling, hiking, skiing and snowshoeing. Her other passion is animals, sharing her home with two large active dogs.

Phillip Williamson

A student at Wheatridge High School, Phillip's first exposure to FrontRange Earth Force was as a participant in the 6th grade.  Since that first experience with our organization, Phillip has had strong ties with FREF.  He joined the Youth Action Board (YAB) in 2006 and recently became the leader of this group of young people.