• 6 years ago
#DenverLisa Calderón, who now professes at Regis College, was Safehouse's legal and social policy head honcho from 1995 to 2007. Lisa Calderón is a survivor. As an active neighborhood member, Lisa is included with a number of community-based initiatives to create more chances for low-income women, youth of color, and formerly incarcerated individuals. Lisa has taken part in shaping Colorado legal efforts by promoting for filing charge waivers for victims of domestic violence looking for defense orders, and lowering racial variations in the criminal justice system. Lisa was a starting commissioner with Denver's Criminal activity Avoidance and Control Commission and presently serves on the State Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Avoidance Council. She is the co-chair of CPCC's Denver's Racial and Gender Variations Committee, and supporters for the dignified and gentle treatment of people caught-up in Denver's criminal justice system. In the little extra time she has, this unrecognized heroine teaches collegiate courses in women and gender research studies and has turned into one of Colorado's authorities on antiracism training and promoting for a safer and much healthier community by addressing concerns of domestic violence. A Colorado local, Lisa is the great-grand daughter of Mexican immigrants and migrant farm workers. Her grandparents raised eleven making it through children and a wide range of grandchildren in North Denver. Lisa's mother, Elaine Calderón is a graduate of West High School and went to Florence Crittenden School for pregnant ladies. Elaine had Lisa at 17-years old, she raised her to become a social justice activist since age five by objecting on picket-lines during the United Farm Employee motion. Lisa is a graduate of North High School, and is the oldest of four siblings, all of whom graduated from or went to college. After high school and college, Lisa went on to graduate from the Universit

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