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

Jill Barwig

Jill Barwig is the Director of Programs at the Colorado Nonprofit Development Center, where she provides organizational capacity building and back-office support to charitable ventures.  Her previous nonprofit management experience includes coordinating nonprofit management trainings in Washington, DC; running an AmeriCorps program in Denver; and managing an effective practices website for nonprofit organizations. Jill received her Bachelors and Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University. She lives in northwest Denver with her husband and two sons.

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.

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.

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

Phillip has been active in EarthForce for almost five years. He started in a youth action council in fourth grade doing environmental projects and has been hooked ever since. He has been on the Youth Action Board for almost four years and has now taken over as the leader of an amazing group of young leaders. His experiences include presenting at the Colorado Conference on Volunteerism as well as other local and national conferences. He goes to WheatRidge High school and is very excited to take on his new position at FREF as Youth Voice Coordinator. He has also recently joined the Board of Directors.