Our Staff & Board

Staff

Amanda Fitzpatrick

Director of Strategic Advancement

Cipriano Gurrola Navarro

Housing Coalition Facilitator

Mara Gwin

Food Access Facilitator & Lead Facilitator

Amy Hall

Events and Office Coordinator

Keisha Massarotti

Office Manager & Bookkeeper

Miriam Lozano

Co Executive Director

Stephanie Radilla

Youth Coalition Facilitator

Carlye Sayler

Co Executive Director

Director of Strategic Advancement

Amanda Fitzpatrick

As Director of Strategic Advancement, Amanda Fitzpatrick supports the development and advocacy of LCBAG. She has a background in grant writing and fundraising and is excited about contributing to the community change with LCBAG. She is passionate about health equity and ensuring every Lake County resident’s human right to a healthy life. Amanda moved to Leadville after finishing her Master of Public Health in Atlanta. Having grown up in Tennessee, Amanda is learning to enjoy snow winters in Leadville, and she loves spending her summers hiking.

To contact Amanda, email amanda@lcbag.org.

Housing Coalition Facilitator

Cipriano Gurrola Navarro

Cipriano Gurrola, born in Mexico and raised in Leadville; holds a nursing degree and has devoted the past 7 years to public health. He finds joy in reading and listening to true crime podcasts. But nothing compares to his love for the magnificent views Lake County has to offer. As the housing facilitator, he understands how vital it is to keep promoting fair housing practices by ensuring that everyone has equal access to housing opportunities regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

To contact Cirpiano, email cipriano@lcbag.org

Food Access Facilitator & Lead Facilitator

Mara Gwin

Mara is the Food Access Facilitator at Lake County Build a Generation. She facilitates the Lake County Food Access Coalition, a group of community members and organizations that are working together to build a community where every Lake County community member is able to access the food and food resources they are entitled to.

Mara grew up in Berthoud, Colorado, joining Lake County Build a Generation as an AmeriCorps VISTA in 2019, and has found a home in Leadville since then. She is grateful to be part of such a supportive community and to pursue her passion for food justice at Lake County Build a Generation.

To contact Mara, email mara@lcbag.org.

Events and Office Coordinator

Amy Hall

Amy is a native Coloradan. She spent her teen years growing up in Minturn Colorado and has been in Leadville for the last ten years. Amy has two sons who attend Lake County High School. In her free time Amy enjoys hiking, traveling and spending time with family and friends.

To contact Amy, email amy@lcbag.org.

Office Manager & Bookkeeper

Keisha Massarotti

Although Keisha was raised in upstate NY, she has lived in Leadville for 23 years where she has raised her 2 daughters, Allie & Rhegan with her life partner, Jay. She enjoys being on the water, gardening and being outdoors with her dog Luna and enjoying her second chance at life!

4 years ago Keisha was a recipient of a new liver from a living donor right here in Leadville that saved her life!!!

Keisha has worked for and served on many non-profit Boards in Leadville in different capacities over the years and is excited to be working for BAG as the Office Manager and Bookkeeper.

To contact Keisha, email Keisha@lcbag.org

Co Executive Director

Miriam Lozano

Miriam is our Co Executive Director at Lake County Build a Generation. Her position focuses on community impact and partnerships. She grew up in Longmont, Colorado and moved to Leadville during her teenage years. She has a deep love for the holiday season. In her spare time, Miriam enjoys coloring, doing crossword puzzles, watching movies or traveling with her husband and 3 daughters.

To contact Miriam, email miriam@lcbag.org

Youth Coalition Facilitator

Stephanie Radilla

Stephanie is a dedicated community builder and passionate advocate for youth involvement. Growing up in the Lake County School District, she not only graduated from its schools but also spent seven years working within the district, where she fostered a love for helping others. As a busy mom of four, Stephanie enjoys spending time with her family and understands the importance of community and resource gathering. She is committed to motivating the next generation to get involved and make a difference.

In her rare free time, you can find her on the soccer field, crafting creative projects, fishing, or enjoying the tranquility in her hammock.

To contact Stephanie, email: Stephanie@lcbag.org

Co Executive Director

Carlye Sayler

Carlye is our Co Executive Director at Lake County Build a Generation. Her role supports strategy, sustainability, and finance. She is committed to supporting the health and wellbeing of Lake County residents and is proud to contribute to the mission of LCBAG. Carlye has a Master’s degree in Education Policy and Management from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and is a DONA certified labor and birth doula. An emergent strategist, she is passionate about working alongside community to co-create a radically different future. Carlye grew up in Colorado and has a deep appreciation for beautiful, unique places like Leadville. When she moved here in 2020, she felt right at home thanks to the incredibly supportive community and the access to the outdoors. She loves mountain biking, hosting big dinner parties, and playing her banjo.

To contact Carlye, email: carlye@lcbag.org.

Board

Grayson Cooper

Board President

Vanessa De Lira

Board Vice President

Amos Pomp

Board Member

Dana Greene

Board Member

Eugene Wilder

Board Member

Board President

Grayson Cooper

Grayson Cooper joined the Leadville community in 2021. Grayson grew up in North Carolina, attending the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While teaching high school math in Eastern North Carolina through Teach for America, he received masters degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and East Carolina University. There, he also co-founded a summer program that still serves students across the eastern part of the state in collaboration with NCSSM and the Boys and Girls Club of the Coastal Plain. From there, Grayson worked as an educational consultant helping schools across the country to implement innovative staffing models before shifting to focus efforts at home in Leadville, starting with the Housing Coalition!

Currently, he also serves on the Lake County School District Board of Education and on Copper Mountain Ski Patrol and is way too ambitious about backcountry cooking. Grayson is grateful for the opportunity to serve on LCBAG’s board and to support the intentional efforts and engagement of community members collectively growing Lake County into a healthier and happier place to live for all.

Board Vice President

Vanessa De Lira

Vanessa De Lira has a 10 year old son named Eden and a husband named Jorge. She has lived in Leadville since 2001 and graduated from Lake County High School in 2009. While in high school, she joined many clubs, including Full Circle, Leadership Crew, SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions), and Future Business Leaders of America. These experiences taught her so much about barriers and resources in Leadville and gave her a passion for helping her community. Vanessa loves everything Leadville has to offer, including nature, people, food, culture, diversity–but most of all, she loves how peaceful it makes her feel to live in a small historic town. Vanessa’s favorite hobby is hiking because being outdoors is super therapeutic for her.

Before joining the Lake County Food Access Coalition as a community connector, Vanessa was working at the laundromat in town. Many locals would go there and talk to her about their struggles with food. Listening to community members’ barriers to food access made her even more passionate about helping to remove those barriers and ensuring all community members have equal access to healthy and affordable food. After hearing about the Lake County Food Access Coalition and Health and Happiness community connector projects, Vanessa decided to join both of them. Both projects gave Vanessa the opportunity to play a bigger role in our community and have led to other professional opportunities–including her new job as a part-time library aide at Colorado Mountain College. This new role is a great fit for her love of reading, for her passion for helping both students and community members navigate community resources, and for her dream of getting more education.

Vanessa brings her a confidence and passion for making changes in our community–developed during her previous work with Lake County Build a Generation–to her work on the Board of Directors. She wants everyone in Lake County to feel welcome and to understand that so many projects have gotten off the ground because of community input. She is really proud and honored to be part of many teams at Lake County Build a Generation because she knows that together, we can make a difference and impact people’s lives.

Board Member

Amos Pomp

Amos grew up in Chapel Hill, NC and went to school at Northwestern University in Illinois, where he also worked as a therapeutic adventures program leader for a few years. From 2022 until 2024, he split his time between Leadville and Seattle, working at the High Mountain Institute (HMI) and getting his M.Ed. from the University of Washington. Now, he works as a Spanish teacher and wilderness instructor at HMI. While volunteering with Full Circle, CORRN, GOL!, and SmartBellies and generally getting to know the Leadville community, Amos learned about the many positive impacts that LCBAG and its coalition members have had for Lake County. He was especially moved to get involved when he attended the 2025 Fair Housing Fair and saw all the incredible work from community members going into educating and supporting other community members. Outside of all that, Amos enjoys running as a non-runner, skiing as a non-skier, biking as a non-biker, hosting monthly cribbage nights, crocheting, watching tv, and cooking with friends.

Board Member

Dana Greene

Dana and her husband Ethan moved to Leadville in 2009 from the Front Range seeking a return to the mountain living they enjoyed decades earlier. Dana works as a family physician in rural hospitals around Colorado. In her work, Dana observes firsthand how the conditions under which people live, learn, work, and play impact their health and affect all aspects of their lives. Dana is excited to serve on the Lake County Build a Generation Board of Directors and supports the organization’s vision of achieving health equity.

Dana and Ethan have two children that grew up in Leadville. As a family they enjoy skiing, hiking, and investigating the natural world. Dana previously served on the board of a local charter school and is currently a member of the Leadville City Council.

Board Member

Eugene Wilder

Eugene grew up in a rural town in central Kansas. Throughout his childhood, the Colorado mountains were the settings of family vacations and field trips. He is incredibly grateful that they are now his home. Throughout his life, Eugene has endeavored to find a way to serve his communities, including two stints in AmeriCorps and service in the Peace Corps. Most of his career, he has been a civil servant within the US Department of State, but his favorite jobs were as a park ranger in Wind Cave National Park and as a science educator at the Kansas Cosmosphere. Eugene enjoys book clubs, board games, and singing.

Our Staff & Board

Staff

Amanda Fitzpatrick

Cipriano Gurrola Navarro

Mara Gwin

Amy Hall

Keisha Massarotti

Miriam Lozano

Stephanie Radilla

Carlye Sayler

Board

Grayson Cooper

Vanessa De Lira

Amos Pomp

Dana Greene

Eugene Wilder

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