Vinnie Cervantes is a community organizer and marketing professional. He is currently the Organizing Director for Denver Alliance for Street Health Response (DASHR), which works to create community-based responses to conflict and crisis. He is also a tri-chair of the Colorado Poor People’s Campaign and a student at CU Denver seeking a Master’s Degree in Political Science. Vinnie is part of several other nonprofits and community organizations, serving on the board of two other organizations. He has spent much of his community engagement organizing for efforts that involve criminal justice reform and serving Denver's unhoused community

Denver Alliance for Street Health Response works to support and create community-based responses to conflict and crisis. These efforts mean finding ways to not use the criminal justice system and to transform the narrative of public safety.

The Colorado Poor People’s Campaign is the state chapter of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. The Poor People’s Campaign is a revival of the movement originally started by Martin Luther King Jr. to confront the issues of poverty, systemic racism, ecological devastation, and the war economy.

Tay Anderson is a proud educator who has worked in both Aurora and Denver public schools. He has served the Democratic Party in many roles, including State Central Committeeman for House District 9, Chair of the Colorado High School Democrats, and High School and College Outreach Coordinator for the Denver Young Democrats. Tay also served as a legislative aide in the Colorado House of Representatives.

Tay is passionate about making the world a better place than the one he grew up in. He has worked on protecting women’s rights, African American rights, Latinx rights, LGBTQ+ rights, Indigenous rights, Muslim rights, and disabled persons’ rights. He has participated in numerous public demonstrations as well as conversations and meetings with school district leaders, state leaders, and members of Congress on social justice issues.

Between working full-time to pay the bills and being active in the community, Tay hopes to one day obtain the degree he needs in order to be a history teacher. Tay gets his passion and perseverance from his grandmother, a retired educator of 35 years. She raised Tay, but has spent the last six years in a medical facility with failing health. It has been devastating for Tay not to have her watch him grow and accomplish his goals, but he carries her spirit through the lessons she taught him.

Dr. Steve Rissman is an associate professor in the Department of Health Professions at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where he has developed the first, and only academic Men’s Health program of study.

Dr. Rissman has spoken at conferences for the American Men’s Studies Associations and numerous other organizations. Dr. Rissman has written extensive volumes of curriculum on the health of men from various cultures, developmental needs of adolescent boys, history of fatherhood, father loss and the correlation of masculinities and addictions. He has published papers on the Health Effects of Anger as well as Masculinity’s Effect on Communication in the Provider/Patient Relationship.

Dr. Rissman has a private practice at his farm office, north of Denver, working specifically with men and boys, especially in the areas of anger, anxiety, lack of motivation and difficult life transition. His intention is to educate toward an understanding of men’s health behaviors, rather than simply making them wrong, in order to lead men on the journey through the abyss of dis-ease to toward fully ripened life as a man.