Meet the Foundation’s Board
Susan Thornton
Chair – Susan Thornton, former Mayor of the City of Littleton, founder and Board chair of Immigrant Pathways Colorado and the Littleton Leadership Academy
Bebe Kleinman
Vice Chair – CEO and Executive Director of Doctors Care
Paul Parish
Secretary-Treasurer – Retired Managing Partner, Management Consulting, Grant Thornton LLP; Former Board Chair, Break Bread; former Board President, Littleton Rotary Foundation
Denise Barton
Senior Vice President, FirstBank
Karen Blilie
Former Greenwood Village council member
Sandra Blythe-Perry
Executive Director, Integrated Family Community Services
Dave Ferrill
Former regional affairs director for Mayor Hickenlooper, and the Governor’s economic development office; leadership positions, Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce; Board of Trustees, YMCA of Metropolitan Denver
Linda Haley
Division Manager, Housing, Community Develop and Senior Resources, Arapahoe County
David Henninger
Board President, Caring for Colorado Health Foundation, and former CEO/Executive Director of Bayaud Industries
Nelly Limon
Coordinator, Sheridan Rising Together for Equity
Linda Olson, Ph.D.
Mayor of the City of Englewood; and Executive Director of the Pioneer Leadership Program at Denver University
Corey Reitz
Executive Director, South Metro Housing Options
Mike Sandgren
Tri-Cities Homeless Services Coordinator
Meet the Foundation’s Advisory Council
Tara Beiter-Fluhr
Mayor, City of Sheridan
Beth Best
Executive Director, Littleton Public Schools Foundation
Mike Braaten
Deputy Executive Director, Department of General Services, City and County of Denver
Tom Brooks
President/CEO, Denver South Economic Development Council
Donald Burns, Ph.D.
Founder and Senior Adviser, Burnes Institute of Poverty Research, Colorado Center on Law and Policy
David Carroll
President, Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce
Shirlaine Castellino
Director, Spring International Language Center
Diana Doyle
President Emerita of Arapahoe Community College
Brian Ewert
Superintendent, Littleton Public Schools, and 2015 Colorado Superintendent of the Year
Zach Frederick
Littleton business owner, Frederick Export; leader of the Rotary Club of Littleton’s International Group
Bob Golden
Former President, South Metro Denver Chamber; President-Elect Littleton Public Schools Foundation
LaDonna Jurgensen
Retired CPA; Treasurer, Littleton Rotary Foundation; former Littleton City Councilwoman
Jeff Keener
President and CEO, South Metro Chamber of Commerce
J.D. McCrumb
Town Manager, Columbine Valley
Rev. Tom Melton
Founding pastor, Greenwood Village Community Church (retired); Principal, Melton Leadership
Randy Pye
Former Founding Mayor of the City of Centennial
Brian Vogt
Former President of the South Metro Chamber of Commerce; CEO of the Denver Botanic Gardens
Carrie Warren-Gulley
Arapahoe County Commissioner District 1