Executive Director

Dede de Percin is a forward-thinking nonprofit executive and strategist, with over 25 years in senior management building successful nonprofit organizations to effect social change. She is passionate about the independent sector, and is dedicated to programs development, systems change, sustainability, cross-sector collaboration, and advocacy. Her breadth of experience includes a wide variety of issue areas: anti-violence, health system advocacy, homelessness, and recreational water use.

Ms. de Percin is the recipient of numerous recognitions, featured in 5280 Magazine as one of the city’s 18 “brightest and most outspoken leaders” and named Consumer Advocate of the Year by Families USA and most recently. People to Watch 2024 by Westword.

Ms. de Percin graduated Cornell University with a B.A. in History of Science, and Regis University with a Masters of Nonprofit Management. Originally from Washington, DC, she now calls Denver, Colorado home.  Her free time is spent volunteering and engaging on progressive social issues as well as mountain biking, kayaking, snowboarding, and herding a worrying number of cats.