Marques Chavez

Keynotes: Stories of Collective Impact

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We are in a divisive era, but not everybody is divided. These are the stories of people coming together to develop long-lasting solutions to difficult policy obstacles. We share stories about education, agriculture, American Indian/Alaska Native communities, energy, public land management, health, and emerging technologies.

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Marques Chavez

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Setting a Vision for Education 09.02.2021 18:39

Send us Fan Mail The Education Leadership Council (ELC) sets a long-term vision for education for the state of Colorado. It is a distinctive entity from a legislative initiative that is uniquely positioned to run the marathon of educational transformation, not the short-term sprint that is often upended by more immediate legislative objectives. Please help us continue this podcast by making a fin...

Tribal Sovereignty: Fostering the Government-to-Government Partnership 02.02.2021 16:09

Send us Fan Mail Like the other topics so far in this series, we examine an issue that has been intensified by the COIVD-19 pandemic: that being the collaboration, or sometimes lack thereof, among the sovereign governments at the tribal, state, and federal levels. Specifically, we why it is so crucial that governments work together, respecting each other’s rights and jurisdiction, to serve their...

Broadband Access for Tribal Communities 25.01.2021 12:13

Send us Fan Mail The Colorado Broadband Office designates a significant portion of the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation as an unserved area for internet service, which is defined as those areas that have download speeds of 5 megabits per second or fewer, or areas with no reported existing service at all. In a year that nearly every activity possible was moved online, the lack of access to broadband in...

Mental Health in Rural Communities 16.01.2021 14:36

Send us Fan Mail Mental health concerns for Americans have significantly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Elevated levels of adverse mental health conditions, substance use, and suicidal ideation were reported by adults in the United States in June 2020. The prevalence of symptoms of anxiety disorder was approximately three times those reported in the second quarter of 2019, and prevalence...

Four Corners Food Collaborative 16.01.2021 10:08

Send us Fan Mail As COVID-19 infections began to rise in Colorado in the spring of 2020, the leadership of the Ute Mountain and Southern Ute Tribes instituted safety measures to protect its members—measures like curfews and limiting travel on and off the reservation. Those measures were effective at limiting the exposure of tribal members to the coronavirus, but it also made getting food even mor...