★ Who is doing the work, and why
We are a small starting team building the scaffolding for SPIRIT — so the Front Range Commons, made of the people who live here, can carry the work going forward. Our job is to make ourselves obsolete.
A starting team
The current SPIRIT team is small — five people — building the scaffolding so the Front Range Commons (the larger community body we are working toward) can eventually carry this work itself. Our explicit goal is to build something that no longer needs us in our current roles.
The team holds five areas of work: Stewarding (the operational center), Coordination (decision-making and structure), Creative (storytelling and design), Community (relationships and outreach), and Technology (the practical tools).
Each of us has decision-making authority in our area, and we make bigger decisions together by consent — meaning we move forward together or not at all, instead of voting some of us down.
What we have is our commitment to this place and to each other, and the willingness to learn in public.
★ Meet the team
5 people · As of May 2026
Stewarding Director · Legal Representative
Jordan (“Josie”) holds the operational center of SPIRIT — convening the Stewardship Council, anchoring programming and fundraising, and shepherding Solidarity Suppers across the Front Range. A connector by nature, she bridges visionary work with the on-the-ground relationships — particularly with the farming and land-tending communities — that anchor SPIRIT’s footing.
Coordination Director · Legal Representative
Benjamin holds SPIRIT’s structural design and the underlying ideas about how a place can take care of itself. He translates between practical decision-making, the legal requirements of a nonprofit, and the long arc of building something that can eventually be handed off to the community. As co-founder of OpenCivics, he connects the Front Range to a wider network of people doing similar work, and leads our Knowledge Commons.
Creative Director
Kathleen leads creative direction across SPIRIT’s storytelling, identity, and the cultural texture of how the Commons comes into view — anchoring community outreach with warmth and relational depth. Wherever SPIRIT shows up — visually, sonically, ceremonially — Kathleen has shaped it.
Community Networking Director
Sarah (“Naiya”) tends the relational fabric — connecting neighborhoods, organizations, and individual stewards across the Front Range so that SPIRIT’s work reaches the people already doing the work. As co-founder of Ancestral Weavings, she brings an essential thread of intergenerational wisdom and Indigenous connection into the fabric of SPIRIT’s programming, particularly the Solidarity Suppers.
Tech Infrastructure Director
Cameron is the practical builder who makes sure things actually work. He designs and tends the technology that holds SPIRIT together — the day-to-day tools we run on, and the decision-making and shared-money systems the Commons will use. Technical precision in service of real people.
Inside SPIRIT, we use appointments — the board names the team, the team names the area leads, the area leads name project leads. The Commons works differently: members elect their own leaders. Two bodies, two ways of choosing.
Where this is going
In time, we hope SPIRIT's Board will be made up of Indigenous leaders, elders, and longtime community stewards — people who actually represent who lives on the Front Range.
For now, the five of us are the starting team. Our goal is to become regular members of the Front Range Commons, with no more authority than anyone else. SPIRIT exists to serve the Commons, not to keep itself going.
