Voices of Change Part V: Hate Crime in America

With Annett James of Boulder County NAACP; Mardi Moore of Out Boulder, and Jonathan Lev of the Boulder JCC. Moderated by Carmen Ramirez, Community and Neighborhood Resources, City of Longmont. Co-presented by the Longmont Multicultural Action Committee.

Join community leaders as they engage in an urgent dialogue on the recent rise in hate crime in this country, illuminating the impact of intolerance and the threat of violence upon the diverse communities that call Boulder County home. 

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Annett James is a mom, speaker, an advocate for social and economic equality, and president of NAACP Boulder County Branch. A native of rural Mississippi, she found her way to Boulder, Colorado to study at the University of Colorado, and has lived in Boulder since. Annett has always had a passion for education, economics and business. These interests bloomed during her studies. She was a member of Black Student Alliance, and supported the First Nations Committee. They were the catalyst to her membership in multiple nonprofit organizations and boards, including the Family Learning Center and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

A former chair of the United Black Women of Boulder Valley, she worked to promote the educational, economic, political and social welfare of Black people in Boulder Valley. During her time as an investment broker, she taught training seminars for Black and People of Color that focused on the importance of financial planning that included knowledge of debt and equity instruments. She was one of a small group of investment brokers that lobbied fortune 500 companies to conduct some of their stock trades using Black brokers. Annett enjoys inventing and product development and has a granted utility patent. Annett helped to found the Joan Washington Scholarship Fund which provided a monetary stipend to Black high school graduates from Boulder and St. Vrain Valley School Districts and the Charles and Mildred Nilon Scholarship which is awarded to a student majoring in education at the University of Colorado who plans to teach in diverse schools. Currently Annett’s spark is fixated on expanding the reach and vision of the NAACP Boulder County Branch.

Mardi Moore is Out Boulder County’s Executive Director. Prior to joining OBC in 2013, Mardi was the Deputy Director of Development at the New York City LGBT Center and worked as the Associate Director of Individual Giving for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. She spent the previous 20 years in Seattle where she owned and operated a fundraising consulting firm serving progressive non-profits in the Pacific Northwest. Mardi has been active in LGBTQ politics at both the local and national level for 30 years. She graduated from the University of Denver with a degree in Political Science. As executive director, she is responsible for the financial management and fundraising for OBC as well as staff development and supervision, program evaluation, board development and planning.

Jonathan Lev, MPA, is the Executive Director of the Boulder JCC. He is a passionate educator and entrepreneur who combines his experience at Jewish summer camp and involvement with the startup of Boulder based Renewable Choice to influence his leadership as a Jewish professional. He was certified as a high school teacher and graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Colorado in Boulder. For more than six years, Jonathan was a leader in the field of Jewish summer camp where he worked tirelessly to enhance the level of supervision and mentorship for both campers and staff through innovative summer and year-round trainings. In 2007, Jonathan continued his studies and was selected as a Taub Fellow at New York University in the dual-master’s degree program for a Master in Public Administration in Nonprofit Management (MPA) and Master in Hebrew and Judaic Studies (MA). He is a Wexner Field Fellow, Schusterman ROI Community Member, and received the 2020 Boulder Chamber of Commerce Community Impact Award. He and his wife Lyndsay spend their free time hiking trails, skiing, listening to music, and spending time with their daughters, Mira and Susanna.

Carmen Ramirez is the Manager for Community and Neighborhood Resources a division of the City of Longmont. She has worked for the City of Longmont for 20 years. She has been involved in several community projects that work to create change within systems and assist in providing more access, inclusion and equity for all community members. Some of the projects have included Latino Community Assessment of Boulder County in 2001 and 2013. She was a cohort in Rockefeller Foundation-NYU Next Generation Leadership Fellowship. She serves as a division manager, mediator, facilitator and interpreter for the City of Longmont and in the community and has worked within the Boulder County communities for 30 years.

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