Jeremy’s passion to empower youth and create social impact led him to help start and serve as the Executive Director of Empower African Children — a scholarship program in Uganda, East Africa for high school and university students to receive quality education and equip them for future success. Prior to that, he served in leadership roles with nonprofits working in the areas of affordable housing, safe drinking water and education. Jeremy holds a Masters Degree in Nonprofit Management from Regis University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Technical Journalism from Colorado State University.

Kevin joined Colorado UpLift in 2002, first as a teacher-mentor working with the youth of Southwest Denver. His passion for helping kids lead him to develop the Adventure program, where students use the outdoor classroom to build resiliency. He later served as Director of Staff Operation, utilizing his experience building high-functioning teams to bring the staff together in collaboration. Kevin now serves as Chief Program Officer of Elevate USA where he helps ensure that we build a national culture of “best practice” innovation and mission alignment with the affiliates we serve. Kevin has a Bachelor of Science degree from Huntington University.

Adam Roybal has 20 years of experience working in the world of positive youth development as a mentor, advocate and role model. He worked for Colorado UpLift for nine years as Director of Post-Secondary, preparing students for college and career options while increasing student enrollment and college retention/graduation rate. Prior to UpLift, Adam worked for Mi Casa Resource Center where he managed after school programs with a focus on academic, social, arts, behavioral, athletic and leadership activities. Adam was appointed to a six-year term to the Mayor’s Youth Commission for the City and County of Denver and became a Kellogg Fellow on a national initiative which focused on Leadership for Community Change. Adam has been a trainer on Search Institute’s 40 Development Assets framework and helped coordinate the Youth Leadership Institute for the Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition and La Raza Youth Leadership Conferences for many years, all of which earned him the Swanee Hunt Youth Leadership Award. He was also a recipient of the Heavy Lifters Award from the Mayor’s Office.

Yessenia Cole is an Administrative Assistant for Elevate USA. After graduating from Thornton High School, she attended a leadership training program at Victory Outreach Urban Training Center in Los Angeles. Yessenia began her work with urban youth in 2004 as a youth leader at her local church in Denver. There, she became a teacher-mentor for kids ages 4-24. In 2007 Yessenia was hired at Colorado UpLift as a Development Assistant before transitioning to her role as Administrative Assistant in 2010. In 2014 she took on a teacher-mentor position and taught the UpLift curriculum at North High School for one year, then at Skinner Middle School for another year. Yessenia now works at Elevate USA as an Administrative Assistant where she has been given the opportunity to share her experiences at Colorado UpLift in the development of new affiliates.    

As an expert in learning, instructional design and presentation delivery, Dan Streeter’s company IMPART Learning Solutions has designed learning experiences for several of the most innovative educational programs in the US such as Elevate USA, Healthy Futures, Project Helping and Regis University. Dan has also served as both VP of Sales and Marketing and as a divisional president for The Kent Group, successfully managing a staff of over 120 people. As a high school teacher he was recognized as a 9News ‘Teacher Who Cares’ Award Winner, ‘Colorado Teacher of the Year’ Nominee and ‘Leaders Challenge’ Sponsor of the Year. Dan has also served as the principal at Flagstone Elementary — one of only three schools in Colorado to win the 2012 US Department of Education’s Inaugural Green Ribbon Award, presented to Flagstone for their exceptional sustainability efforts and an innovative one-of-a-kind course created by Dan and his staff.

Maloree Murphy joined the Elevate USA team as Development and Communication Manager, a role that helps support and expand Elevate’s initiatives to ensure the sustainability of the organization. She is responsible for Elevate’s communication strategies and implementation, fund development activities and event planning. Prior to joining Elevate, Maloree conducted brand and business development for several companies and worked as the liaison between the Executive Director and marketing teams for nonprofit Minds Matter. She has also served as Hospitality Coordinator for Denver Startup Week, an event hosting more than 18,000 attendees. Maloree’s passion for nonprofits began with her work as the Community Commander at Snooze. She was then asked to sit on the Snooze Community Board where she worked with the company’s executive leadership team on philanthropic partnerships and initiatives, budgetary concerns, brand alignment and more. Maloree has a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of Montana.

Jim Pocock comes to Elevate USA as the next step in his distinguished career in relationship development. As the President and Co-Founder of Elevate New England, Jim has firsthand experience seeing the impact Elevate can make in a community, which has inspired him to help bring Elevate to new cities. Throughout his career, Jim’s work has been helping professional executives develop personally and join together to work toward redeeming their communities. Most recently, Jim served as a major gift officer for a private liberal arts college. He has also served as a senior pastor in Connecticut, California and Massachusetts. Jim has degrees from Bucknell University and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and lives in America’s oldest fishing port, Gloucester, MA.

Glenn Moeckelmann brings over 20 years of entrepreneurial business and IT experience to Elevate USA. He has worked with international business delegates in conjunction with Fortune 500 companies certifying them to expand globally via the recognized prestigious ISO-9000 Certification process of benchmarking. Since the mid-90s, Glenn has worked with several hundred startup companies, helping many ventures expand globally. He serves on several post-secondary advisory boards and is currently heading up an innovation team that reaches 145 countries and over 100 million people a year. Glenn’s current Ed Tech company is used at major universities. He has also pastored and church-planted with his wife and four kids. Glenn holds an undergraduate degree in computers and a graduate degree from Dallas Theological Seminary.