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Panelist
Hon. Richard D. Lamm
Jeff Joseph, Esq.
Panelist
Moderator
Richard D. Lamm is Co-Director of the Institute for Public Policy
Studies at the University of Denver, and the former three-term
Governor of Colorado. (1975-1987) He is both a lawyer (Berkeley,
1961) and a Certified Public Accountant.
Lamm was selected as one of Time
Magazine's "200 Young Leaders of
America" in 1974, and won the
Christian Science Monitor "Peace
2020" essay in 1985. In 1992, he was
honored by the Denver Post and
Historic Denver, Inc. as one of the
"Colorado 100" - people who made
significant contributions to Colorado
and made lasting impressions on the
state's history.
While Governor, Lamm wrote or coauthored six books: A California Conspiracy, with Arnold
Grossman (1988); Megatraumas: America in the Year 2000
(1985), The Immigration Time Bomb: The Fragmenting of
America, with Gary Imhoff (1985), 1988, with Arnie Grossman
(1985), Pioneers & Politicians, with Duane A. Smith (1984) and
The Angry West, with Michael McCarthy (1982).
His latest books are Two Wands, One Nation (2006), and The
Brave New World of Health Care (2004).
Lamm has always been in the forefront of political change. As a
first year legislator, he drafted and succeeded in passing the
nation's first liberalized abortion law. He was an early leader of the
environmental movement, and was President of the First National
Conference on Population and The Environment. Reacting to the
high cost of campaigning, he walked the state in his campaign for
Governor of Colorado. Lamm was elected to three terms as
Colorado's top elected official, and in serving as Governor from
January 1975 and retiring in January 1987, he was the longestserving Governor in Colorado's history to that date.
Jeff Joseph is a graduate of the University of Denver, College of
Law. He is a past Chapter Chair of the Colorado Chapter of the
American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and currently
serves as an elected director on the AILA National Board of
Governors. Mr. Joseph also serves as a Trustee on the Board of
Trustees of the American Immigration Council and serves as Chair
of the Litigation Action Committee.
In 2004, he received the Joseph Minsky Young Lawyer Award
from AILA. In 2008, Mr. Joseph was nominated by the Denver
Business Journal as one of Denver's "Forty under 40" which
recognizes forty young entrepreneurs for their business skills,
leadership and community service. In 2009-2011, Mr. Joseph was
selected by his peers for inclusion into the Best Lawyers in
America in the field of immigration. In 2006 through 2011, Mr.
Joseph was named a Colorado Superlawyer by Colorado
Superlawyer Magazine. 5280 Magazine also named Mr. Joseph a
“Top Lawyer” in the area of immigration law for 2006 through
2011. Joseph Law Firm, P.C. has also been ranked as a Tier-I
law firm in the field of Immigration Law by U.S. News and World
Reports, which represents the highest rating available to a firm
limited to immigration law.
In 2008, Mr. Joseph was appointed by Governor Bill Ritter to the
Colorado Nonimmigrant Agricultural Seasonal Worker Pilot
Program Advisory Council. Mr. Joseph has represented clients
before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service, the
Executive Office for
Immigration Review, the
Board of Immigration
Appeals, the U.S. District
Courts, and the Circuit Courts
of Appeals, and has
published several opinions in
those courts.
He is an adjunct professor of
immigration law at the DU
Sturm College of Law.
Polly Baca
Polly Baca
Panelist
Panelist
Former Colorado State Senator Polly Baca is the President and
CEO of Baca Barragan Perez and Associates, a consulting firm
specializing in political consulting, multicultural leadership
development, motivational presentations, and government
relations.
Former Colorado State Senator Polly Baca is the President and
CEO of Baca Barragan Perez and Associates, a consulting firm
specializing in political consulting, multicultural leadership
development, motivational presentations, and government
relations.
Previously, Ms. Baca was the President and CEO of the Latin
American Research and Service Agency (LARASA). LARASA is
a non-profit organization created in 1964 to lead and influence
change to improve the quality of life for Latinos throughout
Colorado with the belief that when you improve the lives of
Latinos in Colorado, you improve the lives of all Coloradoans.
She also served as a member of the 2009 D.U. Strategic Issues
Panel on Immigration.
Previously, Ms. Baca was the President and CEO of the Latin
American Research and Service Agency (LARASA). LARASA is
a non-profit organization created in 1964 to lead and influence
change to improve the quality of life for Latinos throughout
Colorado with the belief that when you improve the lives of
Latinos in Colorado, you improve the lives of all Coloradoans.
She also served as a member of the 2009 D.U. Strategic Issues
Panel on Immigration.
Ms. Baca was the first minority woman elected to the Colorado
State Senate (1978) and the first Hispanic woman to head a sixstate federal agency in Region VIII (GSA). During 1994, Ms.
Baca was Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton for
Consumer Affairs. She served as Vice Chair of the Democratic
National Committee (1981-89)
and Co-Chair of the 1980 and
1984 National Democratic
Conventions.
Ms. Baca was the first minority woman elected to the Colorado
State Senate (1978) and the first Hispanic woman to head a sixstate federal agency in Region VIII (GSA). During 1994, Ms.
Baca was Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton for
Consumer Affairs. She served as Vice Chair of the Democratic
National Committee (1981-89)
and Co-Chair of the 1980 and
1984 National Democratic
Conventions.
Recognition includes being
inducted into the Colorado
Women's Hall of Fame and the
National Hispanic Hall of Fame,
being listed in the World Who’s
Who of Women, Who’s Who in
American Politics, and Who’s
Who in the West. She received a B.A. degree in political science
from Colorado State University, an honorary Doctor of Humane
Letters from the University of Northern Colorado and an honorary
Doctor of Laws degree from Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa.
Recognition includes being
inducted into the Colorado
Women's Hall of Fame and the
National Hispanic Hall of Fame,
being listed in the World Who’s
Who of Women, Who’s Who in
American Politics, and Who’s
Who in the West. She received a B.A. degree in political science
from Colorado State University, an honorary Doctor of Humane
Letters from the University of Northern Colorado and an honorary
Doctor of Laws degree from Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa.
Dr. Philip Cafaro
Dr. Philip Cafaro
Panelist
Panelist
Philip Cafaro is associate professor of philosophy at Colorado
State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. A former ranger with the
U.S. National Park Service, his main research interests are in
environmental ethics, consumption and population issues, and
wild lands preservation.
Philip Cafaro is associate professor of philosophy at Colorado
State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. A former ranger with the
U.S. National Park Service, his main research interests are in
environmental ethics, consumption and population issues, and
wild lands preservation.
Dr. Cafaro is a frequent author, contributor, and panelist for the
Center for Immigration Studies, a non-profit, non-partisan
organization dedicated to
providing immigration
policymakers, the academic
community, news media, and
concerned citizens with reliable
information about the social,
economic, environmental,
security, and fiscal
consequences of legal and
illegal immigration into the
United States.
Dr. Cafaro is a frequent author, contributor, and panelist for the
Center for Immigration Studies, a non-profit, non-partisan
organization dedicated to
providing immigration
policymakers, the academic
community, news media, and
concerned citizens with reliable
information about the social,
economic, environmental,
security, and fiscal
consequences of legal and
illegal immigration into the
United States.
He is the author of Thoreau's
Living Ethics, from the
University of Georgia Press.
He is currently at work on book
titled Bleeding Hearts and Empty Promises: A Liberal Rethinks
Immigration, and is co-editor of a forthcoming anthology, Apply the
Brakes! Environmentalists Confront Population Growth.
He is the author of Thoreau's
Living Ethics, from the
University of Georgia Press.
He is currently at work on book
titled Bleeding Hearts and Empty Promises: A Liberal Rethinks
Immigration, and is co-editor of a forthcoming anthology, Apply the
Brakes! Environmentalists Confront Population Growth.
Dr. Cafaro is a non-partisan, reality-based thinker. He does not
believe you can cut taxes, start two new wars and balance the
federal budget. He does not believe you can provide health
insurance for thirty-five million people without it costing anyone
any money. He does not believe he can have love affairs with his
students and his wife will “just understand.” He does not believe
America can double its population and still create a sustainable
society.
Dr. Cafaro is a non-partisan, reality-based thinker. He does not
believe you can cut taxes, start two new wars and balance the
federal budget. He does not believe you can provide health
insurance for thirty-five million people without it costing anyone
any money. He does not believe he can have love affairs with his
students and his wife will “just understand.” He does not believe
America can double its population and still create a sustainable
society.