Echoes from NoCo

Karissa interviews Kris Simmons, Greeley School District 6’s Head Chef and Advocate for the School Nutrition Association.   Kris Simmons, Head Chef for Greeley School District 6 explains the benefits of Greeley’s current Healthy School Meals for All and Farm to School Lunch programs, and how they have improved both the academic and social/emotional outcomes of students in Weld School District 6. I...

Karissa speaks with a trauma therapist named Katie who has both professional and personal experience around the topic of transgender. Her unique position as both a clinician and a mother of a transgender child provides both personal and informed perspective to the topic. We discuss Katie's personal and professional connection to the subject, the biological nature of the transgender brain, and disp...

Karissa interviews Independent Greeley Mayoral Candidate and Trauma Therapist, Tiffany Simmons.  Tiffany shares her personal and professional background and how they qualify her to best represent the citizens of Greeley as the next Mayor. She speaks on her fiscal policies and how supporting the citizens in Greeley who struggle the most will actually help to save the city money. She rejects the cla...

Karissa interviews Independent Greeley Mayoral Candidate and Trauma Therapist, Tiffany Simmons.  Tiffany shares her personal and professional background and how they qualify her to best represent the citizens of Greeley as the next Mayor. She speaks on her fiscal policies and how supporting the citizens in Greeley who struggle the most will actually help to save the city money. She rejects the cla...

Episode 1 Welcome to the very first episode of Echoes from NoCO! Karissa dives into her complex history with the American Christian Church and how her young adult faith crisis led her to a more balanced prospective on politics, and a wider prospective on cultural struggles. She shares her passion for political prospective grounded in the real voices of the Northern Colorado community, and disrupti...