Social Justice is the issue of the day and Tish Beauford is on the forefront of that battle...a battle she has been waging for years now. Join Tish and I as we discuss the state of race relations along with the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities. We've got a lot of acronyms to cover here. Enjoy the discussion.
Tish Beauford is a 40-year resident of Denver and Aurora. She is community activist, organizer, and radio show host. She has been involved in community service and activism for over 26 years. She became involved in serving the community as member of the International Junior Chamber of Commerce serving as Englewood Local President in 1993 and then was elected to the State Board Of Directors as Membership Development Vice President for the Colorado Junior Chamber of Commerce and served from 1994 to 1996. She was the first African American to serve as a local president and state vice president in Colorado history.
She has served on the Colorado Women's March Board of Directors and as one of the original organizers that mobilized a movement of 3,000 Colorado citizens to the nation's capital to participate in the national Women's March on Washington D.C. in 2017. In 2018, she also went on to serve on the Board of Directors for the Women’s March Denver and served as the Logistics Director for that organization, March for Our Lives and March for Black Women Denver which she still serves on the Board of Directors. In the same year she was nominated and appointed to a two-year term serving as a member on the Colorado Democratic Party Rules Committee for the State of Colorado.
In March 2020, she was also nominated and appointed to a four-year term to the Citizens Advisory Budget Committee for the City of Aurora. Recently, in August 2020, she served as on
The Women for Biden Colorado Advisory Committee for the Biden-Harris Campaign.
In addition to Tish’s community endeavors, she is an outspoken social justice advocate for marginalized people of color, indigenous, LQTBQTIA+, immigrant and homeless communities. She is also an active supporter of children literacy programs and voter rights initiatives.
She is the currently the host of the popular morning radio show “A Public Affair” which airs on KGNU 88.5 FM Radio from 8:30 - 9 a.m. the fourth Thursday of every month.
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