Back in January, we asked readers to submit entries to our annual Colorado Voices contest, which is now in its 16th year. We believe there is great value in offering Denver Post readers a variety of voices on our editorial pages, from all parts of Colorado. Launching the new group is Kathy Ayers, .
Ayers, of Littleton, works for a health care technology corporation in the Tech Center. Her Colorado roots go back 100 years, to her grandparents’ homestead in Craig’s cattle country.
Max Clow of Colorado Springs is a writer, musician, and “aging rocker fix-it guy.” He admits to being an “inactivist,” who “talks about all the world’s problems but does precious little about it.”
George Curtis of Denver has been a lawyer for 38 years, and took a three-year hiatus to do public service for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Laurena Davis of Clifton is the former managing editor of the Grand Junction Sentinel who teaches journalism at Mesa State University. She says she is also a “lousy but passionate bass player in a girl rock band.”
Michele Dolphin of Denver spent 30 years teaching reading, English, composition, humanities and speech communication at Front Range and Aurora community colleges.
Deborah Frazier of Denver is a former staff reporter at the Rocky Mountain News. She worked for the state Department of Natural Resources, and is the author of “Colorado’s Hot Springs.”
Olivia Friedman of Denver is a 16-year-old junior at North High School with a passion for opinion who started a novel in the eighth grade and is now “working on editing out my dreadful middle-school writing.”
Holly Hartwick of Greeley is a 25-year professor of English, who is teaching at Aims Community College. “Driving northeast toward places like Grover is riveting,” she writes. “An entire biome resonates out there.”
Pete Lister of Greeley is a military retiree who works in a telephone call center, serving military personnel. He describes himself as a “bleeding heart liberal and an enthusiastic supporter of the Second Amendment.”
Morgan Lowe of Parker is a recent graduate from the University of Colorado. Her paper, “Princess Politics,” based on Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog,” was presented at the CU Diversity Conference.
Daniel Martynowicz of Lakewood is a Montana transplant who wrote a column called “Moose Tracks” before switching careers and pursing emergency medicine.
Alex Miller of Highlands Ranch is a former Vail columnist. “The gray area is where columns have their greatest value,” Miller writes.
Elizabeth “Libbi” Peterson of Erie is a high school English teacher who admits to having the nickname “motormouth” in her youth. She’s channeled her love of talking into urging students to put their opinions on paper.
George Sowers of Morrison is a rocket scientist. He began as an engineer in Colorado’s space industry and is now vice president of Advanced Concepts and New Technology for The United Launch Alliance.
Siobhan Kellerman Sprecace of Englewood says she “is grateful to be living with stage IV breast cancer.” She describes herself as a “lover of muttons” who “doodles a lot, cleans a little and complains about winter often.”
Ross Van Woert of Loveland is the founder and manager of a marketing consulting and communications agency that specializes in high technology. His other passion, he says, is guitar.
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