14: Mardi Moore, Executive Director of Out Boulder County

In this interview, I had to privilege to speak with Mardi Moore, the Executive Dir. Of Out Boulder County.

Under her leadership, over the last 3 years, here is some of the progress they've made:

• Out Boulder expanded to Out Boulder County .
• Out Boulder County is now focused on meeting the needs of the whole LGBTQ community.
• Out Boulder County expanded by opening an additional office on Main St. in Longmont, CO.
• Creation of the Transgender Leadership Academy

In this conversation,  we get to know Mardi Moore's personal side.  She talks about growing up in rural Colorado.  After graduating from the University of Denver, she  was involved in advocating for  AIDS victims.  Later, in Seattle, she started a company to raise money from smaller donors to benefit LGBT citizen rights and start the Pride Foundation. Mardi shares the importance of keeping balance in her personal life in order to keep strength for the daily challenges of leadership.  Mardi’s openness and insight gives us her personal perspective on the continued challenges toward LGBT rights and freedoms.  Her history, along with her involvement on the national level, has brought a seasoned leader back home to Boulder.