Harrison Hunter’s on a mission to build better lives for the people around him, and to make more inclusive paths into the world of finance. As a former college football player who’s earned his place as a certified financial planner, Hunter, 29, knows…

It was in the early weeks of the COVID pandemic that Natasha Hutson really felt the importance of her work hit home. She was spearheading US Bank’s Paycheck Protection Program work, and access to those loans was make-or-break for businesses. She…

Jacob Cheatham does well in the deep end. Since he was a kid in Barberton, Ohio, Loyal Coffee’s 30-year-old chef has been learning by throwing himself into sink-or-swim situations and rising to the top. His father was a pastor and a steelworker, his…

Entrepreneur Yemi Mobolade announced his bid to become the 42nd mayor of Colorado Springs at an April 4 event in America the Beautiful Park, exactly one year before the 2023 city election. Mobolade, who is running as an independent, was most recently…

L. Song Richardson will be the 14th president of Colorado College. Richardson, currently the dean and chancellor’s professor of law at University of California Irvine School of Law, will succeed President Jill Tiefenthaler, who led CC for nine…

The Colorado Springs Black Chamber of Commerce yesterday (April 18) endorsed Senate Bill 23-213, which aims to address the state’s housing shortage and affordability crisis. President and CEO of the Black Chamber Rodney Gullatte Jr. delivered the…

For Aikta Marcoulier, taking the reins as executive director of the Pikes Peak Small Business Development Center was a “total step out of the comfort zone” — but finding success in unexpected places has been a pattern throughout her life. The…

Minorities, women and underserved communities are strikingly underrepresented in cybersecurity careers, despite growing cyber threats and an acute talent crunch. Now a Springs nonprofit is on a mission to reach those groups, and fill the growing…

Michael Thomas wants to roll up his sleeves and focus on the students. Not content with a view from the top, the new superintendent of Colorado Springs School District 11 sets aside every Monday to get out into classrooms, learning what students,…

From a “pretty Midwestern, middle-class, suburban kind of existence” in Detroit, Idris Goodwin’s creative life took him to Chicago, Colorado Springs and Louisville, Kentucky. He landed back in Colorado Springs as the director of the Colorado Springs…

Nilaja Montgomery will tell you: We still don’t know how to talk about suicide. “We’ve played coy, we’ve swept it under the rug, we’ve been respectful — we’ve done all the things but hit it head on,” she says. “We don’t talk about it and guess what:…

For Spark Mindset CEO Lawrence Wagner, 2019 is a big year.He just spent three months running Spark Mindset’s first pilot program with high school students in New Orleans, La. — and this week he’s back in the Springs to get started with Exponential…

Zuleika Johnson grew up in the Bronx, the daughter of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, and the first generation in her family to go to a university. Today, as assistant director of development at UCCS, she’s helping to build the scholarships…

In the finance world, on the football field, and through volunteering, Harrison Hunter is working to change lives. The 29-year-old former college football player often talks about his passion to “impact, empower and improve the lives of other people”…

Changemakers were in the spotlight at Colorado Publishing House’s second annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion awards on Sept. 15. The awards bring the community together to celebrate diversity and learn how to make a difference in Colorado Springs…

Alex Turner faced a career crossroads: athletic training, or beer. It’s three years since she chose beer, and Turner, 28, is now part of the small-but-growing cadre of women brewers in the United States. Three weeks into her new role as assistant…

The countdown’s on for Colorado Publishing House’s second annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion awards on Sept. 15. The awards, born out of the civil unrest in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder in 2020, are designed to bring community together…

Colorado Springs has no registered cybersecurity apprenticeships — but they could be what the city needs to fill serious gaps in the industry workforce. At Cybersecurity Industry Day April 10 at Catalyst Campus, government, tech and education leaders…

Colorado Springs ranks among the nation’s 25 best cities for graduates with STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) degrees, but across the state women are much less likely than men to work in STEM careers, according to Lauren Casteel,…

After five months of “blood, sweat and tears, grinding, putting it all together,” Anthem Live — a Black-owned, veteran-owned multimedia studio — opened today on Garden of the Gods Road. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony with the Colorado Springs Black…