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Board of Directors
Loring Wirbel
Co-Chair
Loring Wirbel is co-chair of PPJPC and has served in board positions intermittently since the early 1990s. He has worked with the social justice ministry at United Methodist Church, and was a former chair of the Colorado Springs chapter of ACLU. He serves as president of the multi-state Poetry West arts group. He has been involved with several regional energy and sustainability conferences, and leads jeep tours to the summit of Pikes Peak. Wirbel has been involved in technology journalism for more than 25 years. He writes a weekly music column for the Colorado Springs Independent, and has been the recipient of a Pikes Peak Arts Council micro-grant. He is a two-time winner of Sonoma State University’s Project Censored award, and is the author of a book on space militarization plans during the Bush era.
Heidi Cooper
YAT Program Director
Ellise Solace
YAT Organizer
Matt Jones
Membership Engagement Director
Hazel Tan
Steve Flynn
Steve Flynn is serving a second term on the J&P board, being term limited after 6 years the first time. He retired in 2015 after 28 years as a legal services attorney, the last 23 in Colorado Springs working for Colorado Legal Services. This was a practice of civil “poverty law”. His progressive orientation became engrained during the Vietnam War, i.e., the U.S. war against Vietnam and neighboring countries. The 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, police riots, etc., was also a significant factor in his education. He has long had a soft spot for anarchism. Though there were pre-law school “drop-out” periods, as hippy-dom beckoned, his fundamental perspective has remained solid. He is most pleased to continue his progressive/radical journey serving on the board of the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission.