All of our board members are volunteers, and all are drawn from constituencies that we serve. All have a history of outstanding service to the GLBT community, for which they have received numerous community service awards. Many also occupy, or have held, leadership positions with other GLBT organizations. Our current board members are:

 Anthony Aragon
Anthony Aragon is a Denver native and has been a proud member of Denver’s GLBT community for over 25 years. Currently, he is the President of the ERC Board of Directors. Previously, Anthony served as a member of the GLBT Community Center of Colorado Board of Directors for three years and coordinated the pride parade for five years. Anthony also served on the Boards of the Colorado Gay Rodeo Association and the Alexander Foundation. He also co-chaired the annual Colorado HRC Dinner in 2005 & 2006. He is a long-time Democrat activist having worked for former Mayor Federico Pena, Governor Romer and Ambassador Swanee Hunt. He works in Mayor John Hickenlooper’s Administration as his Director of Boards & Commissions. He has also been honored as the Colorado Pride Guide 2005 Coloradan of the Year and the 2006 Colorado Business Council Professional Man of the Year.

 Pamela Bennett
Pamela Bennett moved to the Denver area in the early 1970's. She has a B.S. in Resource Development from Michigan State University. She also has post graduate work in business and computer science. Work experience includes computer process control of oil and gas production, and aerospace command and control subsystem development and production. Pamela is a U. S. Air Force veteran. She is a Commissioner on the City of Aurora Veterans Affairs Commission and Cultural Affairs Commission. She volunteers with the American Red Cross and is a member of the Gender Identity Center of Colorado.

 Peter Gross
Peter Gross was born and raised in Denver and has lived here all of his life. He graduated from George Washington, HS, and took computer courses at Emily Griffith Opportunity School. Since becoming disabled in the mid-1980s, he has performed volunteer work for the ACLU, Equality Colorado, Colorado AIDS Project, and the GLBTCCC. He is also a long-time political activist in the GLBT community. He was a part of ACTUP/Denver and was an office volunteer on the effort to defeat Amendment 2. He was a member of the Mayor Webb's Gay and Lesbian Advisory Committee Public Policy Committee. He volunteers with the Colorado Legal Initiatives Project and NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado. He also sings with the St. John's Cathedral Choir.

 Sue Anne Michaels
Prior to joining the board of ERC, Sue Anne was and still is very active in the Imperial Court of the Rocky Mountain Empire, where she served on its Board of Parliament and Board of Directors, during which time she also was the CFO for 2 years. Other affiliations include the Colorado Gay Rodeo Association and the
Colorado Stone Wall Democrats Transgender Caucus. Sue Anne currently works as a Special Deputy for the United States Marshal Service, and she is the immediate past President of the Colorado Fraternal Order of Police, having served on its E-board for 18 years.

 Nancy Sanders
Nancy Sanders moved to Denver in 1974 from the Chicago area. Her career experience has been predominantly in management at three local companies. Currently, she works in telecommunications. Nancy has been a key player in the development of diversity initiates at each of her employers as well as holding office as president of the women's organization and the Diversity Council at two of her employers.

 Jessie Shafer
Jessie Shafer has been active in the Denver LGBT community since 1996, beginning with his service on the board of the Gender Identity Center of Colorado. He also served two years on the board of GenderPAC, a national gender advocacy organization headquartered in Washington, DC. During the later years of the Webb administration, he was a member of its Gay and Lesbian Advisory Committee, working with them to enact Denver's domestic partnership registry and to add gender identity and a private cause for action to Denver's Anti-Discrimination Ordinance.
He is also a part-time volunteer for Project Angel Heart.

 Rob Short
My name is Rob Short and I live and work in Northern Colorado where I was born and raised. I attended the University of Colorado in Boulder where I received a bachelor's degree from the College of Architecture and Planning. I have been a member and advocate of various organizations and causes ranging from historic preservation to environmental sustainability to GLBT rights and equalities. I firmly believe that legitimization and maintainance of equalities, rights, benefits, and responsibilities for GLBT citizens in Colorado is something that is the utmost of human causes we at Equal Rights Colorado advocate for in this beautiful state. I am very proud to serve on the board of this extraordinary organization with such fine and outstanding members of the community.

 Patrick Steadman
Patrick Steadman is an attorney who works as a registered professional lobbyist with the firm of Mendez, Steadman & Associates in Denver. He received his law degree from the University of Colorado in 1991. He has been lobbying the Colorado General Assembly for nine years on behalf of a wide variety of client interests, including Equal Rights Colorado. He came to lobbying through his work on ballot initiative campaigns. He has worked or managed a number of statewide initiative campaigns for progressive causes starting with the NO on 2 campaign in 1992, and most recently the NO on amendment 25 campaign in 2000. He serves on the board of Equal Rights Colorado in an ex officio, non-voting capacity.

 Kirsten Boyd
Kirsten Boyd's professional experience in politics, public and media relations and fundraising, spans 10 years and the United States. She has successfully raised millions of dollars in California, Colorado and Pennsylvania in the political and nonprofit sectors and has engaged in successful political campaigns at every level of operation from field to communications to finance to management. She has appeared nationally on TV and internet sources as well as radio and print sources such as The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Denver Post. She has also served on several boards and commissions including the LGBT Advisory Committee to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee, of which she was the Treasurer for 2 years, Equal Rights Colorado and Lutheran Student Movement, of which she was National President.

 Shawn Nowlan

 Andrew Yale
Andrew Yale was born and raised in Gunnison, CO. After a brief stint in Minnesota for college, he returned to Boulder, CO to attend Naropa University to obtain his masters in psychotherapy. He currently is a contract administrator for Denver Public Health and has been in the health care field for numerous years. He has been actively involved with BCAP, CAP, CORA, ERC, Our House II, and a community advisory board for clinical research on AIDS.