About ProgressNow Colorado Education
ProgressNow Colorado Education (formerly ProgressNow.org) is a first-of-its kind organization. Our mission is to provide a strong, credible voice in advancing progressive solutions to critical community problems. But we don’t do that on our own – we work as a communications team for the entire progressive community.
We’re a marketing department for progressive ideas – a campaign that never stops. We work year round to challenge conservative propaganda in the media and make sure that progressive perspectives are heard.
- We work with our extensive network of members and advisors to maintain 24-7 rapid media operations.
- We investigate and report the stories that the media won’t cover – through print, audio, and video.
Please check out this site and get informed on the issues so that you can help promote progressive ideas in your community.
And please remember that we’re supported by the generous donations of people like you. ProgressNow Colorado Education is a 501©(3) non-profit organization, so your donations are deductible for federal income tax purposes.
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Staff
Michael Huttner, Executive Director
| Founder of ProgressNow, a Colorado progressive online advocacy organization that has now expended to California, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington state, and Wisconsin. He has taught Legislation and Lobbying as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver College of Law. Mr. Huttner worked as Policy Advisor to Governor Roy Romer, and before returning to Denver he clerked at the White House for the Office of the Counsel to the President.
Mr. Huttner earned his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law and his Bachelor of Arts from Brown University. Mr. Huttner was chosen by The Denver Business Journal as one of the “Forty under 40” Leaders of Denver and by Denver’s 5280 magazine as the “Top Up-and-Comer to Keep Your Eye On.”
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Bobby Clark, Deputy Director
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Bobby was one of the earliest staff members on Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, helping pioneer their novel use of the Internet to raise awareness for a little-known candidate and bring in more than $25 Million online in 14 months. Prior to DFA, Bobby served as Deputy Director of a statewide initiative in Colorado.
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Jen Caltrider, Video Producer
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Award-winning television producer Jen Caltrider brings journalistic instinct and know-how to ProgressNow. A network producer for CNN, specializing in technology journalism, Ms. Caltrider traveled the United States to cover the latest in high-tech happenings. With accurate investigative research and diligence, Ms. Caltrider entered the hidden world of computer hackers and provided viewers rare glimpses of these secretive people and their incredible skills.
Working as the Executive Producer at Denver, Colorado based ProgressNow since 2005, Ms. Caltrider is recognized as a pioneer in the use new media for online organizing. Her online videos, viewed by millions, have been covered by the NY Times, MSNBC, CBS News and many others. Ms. Caltrider designs and coordinates new media campaigns, utilizing all the web has to offer to fight for causes ranging from justice for a murdered transgender teenager, to helping citizens in Longmont, Colorado win a rare victory in the civic fight against mega-church expansion in their community.
Described as creative, strategic and personable, Ms. Caltrider understands how to take all aspects of new media and turn them into a story to help better communities everywhere.
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Brittney Wilburn, Outreach Director/Development Director
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Brittney Wilburn, Outreach Director/Development Director for ProgressNow Colorado, returned home to Colorado in the summer of 2006 from Maine where she was the Grassroots Organizer for the Family Planning Association of Maine. While in Maine she worked on the No on 1 Campaign which successfully passed and added sexual orientation to the anti-discrimination civil rights law. Prior to her work at ProgressNow, she was the Deputy Communications Director for America Votes in Denver and helped pass Amendment 42, the minimum wage increase. As the Outreach Director and Development Director for ProgressNow Colorado, Brittney collaborates with progressive organizations and helps get folks fired up around important issues through online organizing and local events. She is the Board Co-Chair for the Colorado Women's Lobby. Brittney graduated from Bates College with her BA in Anthropology and went on to attain her Masters in Public Policy from the University of Southern Maine.
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Alan Franklin, Online Operations Director
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The primary web designer and technical assistance contact for ProgressNow's 12-state network of progressive advocacy organizations, Alan Franklin has also been involved with the breaking of numerous major press stories in Colorado as a blogger and researcher. Alan was originally hired by the Rocky Mountain Progressive Network in the summer of 2004 after participating in a series of battles over "academic freedom" in the state legislature while a student at Metropolitan State College of Denver. Alan has a wife named Karmen, an eight-year-old son named Roland, and lives in suburban Arvada, Colorado.
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