Board of Directors

Jean Dubofsky, Esq.

Board President

Law Offices of Jean Dubofsky

Boulder, Colorado

Community affiliations include:  Attorney in private practice handling mostly appellate work with social justice themes – successfully argued Romer v. Evans, the Amendment 2 case before the United States Supreme Court in 1995; former Colorado Supreme Court Justice 1979-1987.

Molly Ryan, Esq.

Board Secretary/Treasurer

Colorado Legal Services – Chaffee County

Buena Vista, Colorado

Community affiliations include:  Past President of Board of Directors, Alliance Against Domestic Abuse; Habitat for Humanity.

Jonathan D. Asher, Esq.

Executive Director

Colorado Legal Services

Denver, Colorado

Community affiliations include:  Member, Greater Park Hill Community Inc.; Bar Association Commission on Homelessness and Poverty; American Bar Association Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants; Denver Bar Association Board of Trustees; Member, Governor’s Energy Assistance Reform Task Force 1997-1998; Member of Executive Committee, Denver Family Opportunity Council; past Member, Board of Trustees, Temple Emmanuel.

Frank Brainerd, Esq.

Private Attorney

Cherry Hills Village, Colorado

Community affiliations include:  Director, United Methodist Development Fund; past-President, Administrative Board and Board of Trustees, United Methodist Church; Director Camp O-At-Ka, Maine.

Nan Morehead

Community Liaison

Denver Department of Human Services

Denver, Colorado 

Community affiliations include:  Founding member and current advisory board member for the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute (SFAI grantee); Colorado Board Chair for Metro CareRing which provides basic needs for low income people in Denver; board member Mental Health Association of Colorado; board member Colorado Common Cause; board member The Forum Housing Development Corporation; Executive Committee for the Colorado Social Legislation Committee; Executive Committee for Metro Denver Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) - food and nutrition program that makes grants locally); member grant making board for Colorado Energy Assistance Foundation; acts as the official contact for the Denver Department of Human Services on two grant projects that are being developed locally with the Annie E. Casey Foundation - Family to Family, a new approach to foster care. Making Connections - organizing and empowering low-income neighborhoods. Recently received the Mitch Snyder Memorial Advocacy Award from the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless working to address the issues of homeless and advocate for the homeless in Denver.

Jean C. Townsend, M.A.

President

Coley/Forrest

Denver, Colorado

Community affiliations include:  Chair, Downtown Denver Civic Ventures, Inc.; Member, Hope Communities, Inc. Real Estate Committee; Past Chair, Colorado Common Cause; Past President, Denver Association of Business Economists; Past Board Member, Arvada Chamber of Commerce; Past Board Member, Lower Downtown District, Inc.; Business Advisory Group, City of Westminster; CLE International Speaker in Real Estate and Condemnation Conferences; Colorado Real Estate Broker.

James E. Scarboro

Senior Partner

Arnold & Porter

Denver, Colorado  

Community affiliations include:  Volunteer, Invest in Kids, Inc.; Volunteer, Legal Aid Foundation; American Bar Association; American Law Institute; Colorado Bar Association; Doyle's Inn of Court; Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. 

Irene Taylor Kawanabe

University of Denver School of Law

Denver, Colorado

Community affiliations include:  Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Colorado; Colorado Bar Association; Denver Bar Association.

T.A. Taylor-Hunt

Private Attorney

Aurora, Colorado

Community affiliations include:  Colorado Coalition for the Homeless; Stout Street Health Clinic; Metro Denver Homeless Families' Project.

Michael A. Valdez, Esq.

Colorado Bar Association

Legislative Relations

Denver, Colorado

Community affiliations include:

Cynthia Delaney, Esq.

QWEST International

Litigation Group, Corporate Counsel

Denver, Colorado

Community affiliations include:  Volunteer, Rocky Mountain Survivors Center; represents torture victims in asylum hearings before the US Immigration Court.

David Butler, Esq.

Retired, Holland and Hart

Denver, Colorado

Community affiliations include:  Former Chair of COLTAF; member of Access to Justice Commission, Colorado Supreme Court.