How to Become a PIFP Fellow - Colorado College

ACLU Foundation of Colorado

Offered PIFP Fellowships since: 2005

The mission of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation of Colorado is to protect and extend the constitutionally guaranteed rights of all people in Colorado through education, advocacy, and litigation. ACLU accomplishes its mission by working with constituents and members, addressing existing, as well as potential, inequities within our system of statutes, regulations, and codes, assuring for all people in Colorado fair and equal treatment under local, state and federal law. ACLU advocates for changes in existing law and support new legislation to attain our objective of equal justice for everyone in Colorado. Their sister organization, the ACLU of Colorado, is a 501(c)(4) organization and through it, with our constituents and members, we advocate for changes in existing laws and support new legislation to attain our goals.

Hunter Swain ‘09
ACLU Foundation of Colorado
Summer Fellow
Major/minor: Sociology/Anthropology
Hometown: Germantown, TN

Bell Policy Center

Offered PIFP Fellowships since: 2004

The Bell is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, progressive public policy organization committed to making Colorado a state of opportunity for all Coloradans. The Bell seeks to reinvigorate the debate on issues affecting the well-being of families and working adults. The Bell advocates for public policies before the state legislature, executive branch agencies, other policy makers and the public as well as work on state fiscal policy issues including TABOR and Referendum C. Additional areas of interest include: immigration, closing the achievement gap, making post secondary education more accessible and affordable, expanding access to affordable health care, reinstating Colorado’s Earned Income Tax Credit and cracking down on predatory lending practices.

Joel Minor ‘11
Bell Policy Center
Summer Fellow
Major/minor: Environmental Science/Latin American Studies
Hometown: Lafayette , CO

Butterfly Hope: A Science
and Creative Arts Program

Denver, CO

Offered PIFP Fellowships since: 2004

Butterfly Hope is committed to the development of children’s lives by offering a program of Natural Science, Gardening, and the Creative Arts. This enrichment program encourages children to respectfully explore their natural world and the creativity that grows within each of them. The goals of Butterfly Hope include increasing social and leadership skills of children, and inspiring and motivating children and youth toward further learning. Objectives include providing bilingual enrichment programs with experiential learning projects centered around gardening, creative arts and natural science for students at Cheltenham Elementary School in grades K-5.

Sarah Rodriguez ‘09
Butterfly Hope
Summer Fellow
Major: Biology/Spanish & Latin American Culture and Society
Hometown: Ft. Collins, CO

Catamount Institute

Colorado Springs, CO

Catamount Institute is a nonprofit science education organization. Catamount's mission is to inspire ecological stewardship and we achieve this through leadership, education, example and well considered partnerships. Two locations allow us to offer broad-based educational programs which address urban ecology as well as offering place-based studies in a pristine, sub-alpine biome.

Catamount believes that solutions to the challenges of an overburdened eco-structure are best achieved through the realizations that come from an understanding of the connective interdependency of all life on the planet. To that end, programs are crafted with rich opportunities to explore and experience the natural world under the leadership and guidance of dedicated professionals.

David Harvey ‘08
Catamount Institute
Summer Fellow
Major/minor: Psychology
Hometown: Seattle, WA

Colorado Consumer Health Initiative

Denver, CO

Offered PIFP Fellowships since: 2007

The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative (CCHI) is a member-based nonprofit nonpartisan organization dedicated to ensuring barrier-free access to quality health care for all Coloradans. The CCHI provides a unified statewide voice for health care reform, empowering consumers to know more about the health care system and to break down the barriers that deny Coloradoans access to health care.

Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute

Denver, CO

The Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute (COFPI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan project of the Colorado Center on Law and Policy, promotes justice and economic security for all Coloradans. As both a resource and catalyst, the Institute works for changes in public policy through timely, credible and accessible fiscal policy analysis, education, advocacy and coalition building.

COFPI employs a unique combination of strategies and skills to accomplish its mission - policy and legal research, education, coalition-building, lobbying, government watchdog, and advocacy. COFPI is an organization dedicated to systemic change so that all Coloradans have equal justice, security, and opportunity.

Colorado Health Institute

Denver, CO

Offered PIFP Fellowships since: 2005

Established in 2002, CHI provides comprehensive, impartial health data resources and policy analysis to policymakers, health planners, the business and nonprofit communities, advocacy and consumer groups, health care providers, foundations, and the media. CHI carries out its mission through a variety of activities and three primary functions:

• providing analytic resources and serving as a clearinghouse for health data;
• conducting a wide range of health policy-related research and analysis; and
• facilitating community and state-level health policy development through skilled convening and facilitation, technical assistance, publications, events, and other strategic communication strategies.

Jessica Jordan ‘08
Colorado Health Institute
Yearlong Fellow
Major/minor: International Political Economy/French; Psychology
Hometown: Boulder, CO

Riley Wyman ‘11
Colorado Health Institute
Summer Fellow
Major/minor: Undeclared (economics)
Hometown: Greenwood Village , CO

CASA: Court Appointed Special Advocates

Colorado Springs, CO

Offered PIFP Fellowships since: 2004

CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of the Pikes Peak Region is a volunteer-based nonprofit organization serving El Paso County and Teller County that trains and supervises volunteers to represent the best interests of our most vulnerable citizens - victims of child abuse, neglect, and severe domestic conflict. CASA volunteers are appointed by judges to be a voice for these children in court and in the community. The desired result is that children are placed into safe, loving homes where they can thrive.

CASA offers a variety of programs and services designed to meet the special needs of vulnerable children. Among them are the: Dependency and Neglect Program; Domestic Relations Program; Supervised Exchange and Parenting Time Program (SEPT). CASA of the Pikes Peak Region serves approximately 800 children per year, but close to 700 are still waiting for volunteer advocacy.

Krystle Richman ‘09
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)
Summer Fellow
Major/minor: Sociology/Feminist & Gender Studies; Spanish
Hometown: Montclair , CA

The Latina Initiative

Denver, CO

In 2002, The Latina Initiative (LI) was founded to more fully engage and empower Latinas in the issues and decisions that impact their lives and the health and well-being of their families and communities. LI recognizes the culturally-respected and influential role Latinas play as leaders and role models. Over the past five years, the organization has become synonymous with informed, engaged, civically-active Latinas- Latinas who will influence family education and information, household consumer decisions, community culture and political outcomes.

NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Foundation

Denver, CO

NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Foundation (NPCCF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and protecting every woman’s right to make informed personal decisions about the full range of reproductive health options. NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Foundation works in partnership with NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado, Inc. to engage in political and public policy work. NPCCF engages in several major activities, including: public education and outreach about women’s reproductive rights and healthcare; policy and education initiatives to improve access to reproductive health services; research, coalition building and public policy activities aimed at reducing unintended pregnancies in Colorado and thereby lowering the need for abortion.

National Conference of State Legislatures

Denver, CO

The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) is the nation’s preeminent bi-partisan organization of, by and for state legislatures. NCSL serves the nation’s 7,382 state legislators and thousands of legislative staff. With its national headquarters in Denver and its federal office in Washington, DC, NCSL provides non-partisan information to help state legislators make more informed decisions about the full range of state policy issues, from Agriculture to Zoning. Information services include maintaining and updating a national information clearinghouse of resources; tracking state legislative activities on a variety of topics; monitoring federal actions that affect states; writing and publishing hundreds of reports; creating and updating Web resources; conducting meetings and seminars for state legislators and legislative staff, ranging from small invitational seminars to large national meetings; responding to thousands of phone and email requests from constituents, the media, and others; and providing in-state testimony when requested.

Three NCSL programs will offer Fellowships this year:

NCSL: Education Program

NCSL: Health Program

NCSL: Partnership on Family Economic Success

Berenice Torres ‘10
National Conference of State Legislatures
Education Program Summer Fellow
Major/minor: Sociology/Feminist and Gender Studies
Hometown: Dallas, TX

Ruth Domrzalski ‘08
National Conference of State Legislatures Health Program
Summer Fellow
Major/minor: Philosophy/Russian
Hometown: Albuquerque , NM

Christen Lara ‘08
National Conference of State Legislatures
Family Program
Summer Fellow
Major/minor: Economics/Anthropology
Hometown: Colorado Springs, CO

Lani Hinkle
Administrator
Public Interest Fellowship Program
The Colorado College
14 E. Cache la Poudre St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Lani.Hinkle@ColoradoCollege.edu
phone 719-227-8175
fax 719-389-6804