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JAMBOREE 2024
¡Gracias por participar del Jamboree de este año!
ILCO organizó nuestro Jamboree anual de primavera con afiliados la semana pasada, del 9 al 10 de mayo en Denver. El Jamboree comenzó el jueves por la noche con un cóctel de recepción con cena, música, networking y juegos de trivia de Dolly. Los oradores incluyeron: el gobernador Polis pasó el viernes por la mañana para celebrar los éxitos del programa con los afiliados y aceptar una foto autografiada de Dolly, Kelly Dunkin de Co Gives Foundation, Brooke Seigle de Imagination Library Middle Tennessee/United Way of Greater Nashville; y una sesión de 3 partes sobre El papel de los libros y los hitos del desarrollo con la Dra. Michelle Shiffman , pediatra de Reach Out and Read, Heather Craiglow de CDEC/Head Start y la maestra de 1er grado Christy Howard de Steele Elem en Co Springs. Nicolle Davies, Allie Wegner (Co Labs), Michelle Anthony (Dollywood Foundation) también dieron una actualización sobre Imagination Library a nivel estatal y nacional. Asistieron más de 40 afiliados de todo Colorado.
Bibliotecas de imaginación de afiliados locales
Michelle Anthony is a regional director for The Dollywood Foundation. She’s passionate about bringing positive change to her community, and has spent her entire career working in the non-profit sector for youth serving organizations. Michelle and her husband have two daughters, and all four of them are avid readers! Outside of reading, they enjoy watching the Denver Broncos, playing sports, spending time in the Rocky Mountains, and just being together as a family.
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Brooke Seigle is the Senior Manager of Imagination Library of Middle Tennessee, serving children and families in Davidson, Sumner, and Williamson Counties with 50,000 young minds enrolled in the program and raising half a million dollars a year to support the effort. She is an avid outdoors woman with an inclination toward wild waters, climbing the tallest crags, and running the toughest trails. She is keen on loving children and making literacy accessible and equitable for all.
Dr. Kristin Klopfenstein is the the Executive Director at Colorado Action and Evaluation at University of Denver. She founded the Colorado Lab to co-create responsive and actionable research in partnership with decision makers. Kristin’s previous experience prepared her well for launching, growing, and sustaining the Colorado Lab.
Brooke Boynton Hughes is a Native Coloradan, from Loveland where she spent her childhood days drawing cats, mermaids, and treehouses. When not drawing, she would be found making shoe box dioramas, building snow forts with her brother, or watching anything by Jim Henson. As a young adult, she attended Colorado State University, earning a BFA in Printmaking, followed by the New York Academy of art, earning an MFA in Figurative Art with a concentration in drawing and relief printmaking. She has been a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators since 2005. Back in Colorado with her husband and 3 young children, she has enjoyed the success of over a doze illustrated works, including, notably, the Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton, published in 2016.
