Artist, activist, writer Kyle Harris programs documentaries and event coverage for Free Speech TV, produces for The Activist Studio, works as an advocate on the CAVP crisis hotline, reviews films and theorizes media. At any given time, Kyle can be found working on reviving Colorado Indymedia, tweaking last details on his eco-anarcho-epic queer film /The Patriarchs/, and finding endless excuses to socialize, organize, and debaucherize around town. His politically perverse media work has been shown in festivals, galleries, museums, and community spaces worldwide to the delight and disdain of curious audiences. To find out more about what’s on Kyle’s mind, visit his blog at http://couchpotatorevolution.blogspot.com

Hillary Jorgensen is a scholar and activist who is passionate about pursuing social justice in an anti-oppression framework.  She holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Colorado and a J.D. from Seattle University.  She is currently the Director of Colorado Progressive Action and sits on the Board of Directors for the Colorado Anti Violence Program and the National Youth Leadership Network.  When she's not organizing, theorizing or generally law-ing it up, you can find her hiking, crafting, baking, or playing board games.

Stefany Minor grew up on two streets that never intersected, one in the Bay Area, CA and the other in the Dirty South, SC. This bicoastal and bicultural upbringing provided much to observe and learn leading her to formally study people and their interactions by the ways of Anthropology & Interpersonal Communication. Stefany has resided in Denver since 2006. Involvement with both the Denver chapter of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence and CAVP have allowed her to call this beautiful but land locked state home. She is currently nurturing a project that will incorporate storytelling and folklore for individual healing and community liberation.

Mercy Salazar is a fierce queer Latina who is committed to creating comunidad. Currently she is obtaining her masters at the University of Colorado at Denver in political science where she focuses on immigration politics.  Mercy has worked within the nonprofit arena for the past ten years first as an ESL instructor and community organizer for immigrants and refugees in Bowling Green, Kentucky.  She spent the second half of her career as a Case Manager and as the Director of Advocacy for the Rape Assistance & Awareness Program where she was committed to working with survivors of sexual assault as well developing programmatic work through an anti-oppression and social justice lens to better serve survivors of marginalized communities.  When Mercy is not studying you can find her out dancing to a good cumbia at the pachanga or with Embrujo Flamenco, a local flamenco dance company.  Mercy is proud to be a part of the CAVP familia and welcomes all who are interested in learning more about CAVP’s contributions to the community.

Michelle Tijerina proudly identifies as a strong “ism-fighting” Queer Chicana/Latina.  Born and raised in rural south Texas, just forty-five minutes from the birthplace of Queer Radical-Writer, Gloria Anzaldua, Michelle learned how to survive and fight against the varied effects of mainstream oppression.  Michelle continues the fight today, through her work as the Bilingual Clinical Case Manager for West Denver’s Child & Family Center, a division of Mental Health Center of Denver.  Michelle is also currently earning her Master of Nonprofit Management Degree from Regis University, which she hopes will ensure a life-long career of working with and for marginalized and vulnerable communities.  Outside of work and school, Michelle serves our community as a CAVP Crisis Hotline Advocate, Board Member for the East High School Student Attendance Review Board and supporter/volunteer for Voz y Corazon, a Latina-Youth Suicide Prevention and Mentoring Group.