About Us

We are students at the University of Colorado who strive to learn about and create media in a meaningful way.

Meggy Wiley

Brand Design and Outreach

Pennington, NJ

Meggy is a senior at CU Boulder studying Strategic Communications with an advertising strategy focus and double minoring in Media Production and Business. Meggy specializes in graphic design, research writing, photography, editing, and brand management. She is passionate about strategic advertising across all media platforms. Meggy works primarily as our brand and logo designer, and outreach specialist, supportive web designer, and also has conducted research and video production on the team.

Lily Fletcher

Project Managment

Lafayette, CO

Lily is a junior at CU Boulder studying Journalism and Media Production with a documentary focus. Her passions include project management, education, and communication guidelines, as well as research, writing, and production. Lily’s work on the team involves doing the majority of the educational outreach as well as supporting video production and research for the project. Lily serves as the project manager and educational liaison.

Curtis Wagner

UX/UI and Creative Designer

Lafayette, CO

Curtis is a senior studying Media Production. Curtis is passionate about website design, video production, narrative design, and interactive media. He serves as DIT’s UX/UI and Creative Design Lead and supports project management and brand development for the Denver Interactive Timeline team. Curtis also provides feedback on research and multimedia elements of the project during key implementation phases.

Oliver Pollock

Videography and Brand Design

Lafayette, CO

Oliver is a junior at CU Boulder studying Strategic Communications with a creative advertising focus supplemented by a double minor in Media Production and Creative Technology and Design. Oliver specializes in graphic design, photography, video production, editing, and overall brand design. Oliver works as one of our lead researchers, and our primary videographer, and supports with brand development and website design.

Caleb McKernan

Photography and Research

Marblehead, MA

Caleb is our geological research and photography lead on this project. Caleb is a junior at CU Boulder studying Media Production with a minor in Geology. He is passionate about photography, interactive media, geology, history, and the great outdoors! Caleb specializes in finding academic resources for the project, as well as providing all of the original photography. He also serves as one of our lead researchers and a video production crew member.

Ben Berman

Video Production and Editing

San Francisco, CA

Ben is our lead videographer and editor as well as a key researcher on the DIT team! Ben has experience in technical and narrative writing, video editing, sound design, and digital illustration. He specializes in the zoological, ecological, and cultural research for the Prehistory section of the website, as well as copy editing other sections. Ben is the lead producer/editor of all of our video productions and has created digital illustrations and animations for assets unable to be captured on film or video on the site.

Our guiding values are humility and reflection.

We understand that we can't know everything, and that all individuals are ultimately different. We engage in reflective practices such as researching diverse sources, acknowledging bias, and peer reviewing our work in order to recognize and potentially mitigate bias that is present in the research and content we write. We hope that through providing trustworthy academic resources and serving as an epicenter for other sources we can give the most accurate representation of Colorado history for teachers in the Denver community. Thank you for choosing our resource to engage with Colorado history!

Donate to Colorado Resources

The Denver Interactive Timeline is committed to engaging with and promoting local Colorado resources. If you want to support organizations dedicated to preserving Colorado's historical resources, please consider making a donation to one of the websites below.

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Colorado Open Lands

Colorado Open Lands is a non-for-profit organization with a mission to preserve “significant open lands and natural heritage of Colorado”. The organization has private and public partnerships, but works primarily with private groups. Colorado Open Lands make voluntary agreements to ensure private land is dedicated to the preservation of Colorado land.

Some major facts that impact their mission is that 60% of Colorado land is private land and only 2% is protected for land conservation. They want private land to stay ranches and farms and prevent future growth overcoming private land due to the increased demand to live in Colorado, as the population is predicted to increase by 36% by 2050.

Make a donation: https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/WebLink.aspx?name=E6243&id=2&formid=25&Preview=true

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Colorado Historical Foundation

The Colorado Historical Foundation is an organization that puts their efforts into commemorating, preserving, documenting and interpreting Colorado history. Some of their actions include:

Preservation loans that help individuals and groups finance rehabilitation efforts that preserve Colorado maintain history.
Conservation efforts that include projects that protect historical buildings, land and structures.
Responsible stewardship that expands on the study and preservation of state history.
Project support that helps individuals write grant applications, conduct technical and research assistance, and ensure individual projects adhere to the National Park’s Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Buildings.

Making a donation to this non-profit organization will help enrich Colorado’s history and preserve historic landmarks that reflect what happened and retell the events that shaped and developed the great state of Colorado.

https://www.cohf.org/donate/

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Conservation Colorado

Conservation Colorado is committed to fighting for the natural land of the great state of Colorado. This organization is specifically dedicated to combating the institutional injustices regarding environmental and racial issues in the state of Colorado. Their website states. Conservation Colorado works directly with community members through advocacy work to protect Colorado air, land, wildlife and water in elections and policy making.
Making a donation to Conservation Colorado will assist them in combating the institutional issues that impact the Colorado environment. Their mission is to combat the issue of climate change while also confronting the intersectional issue of racial discrimnation that halts the environmental movement.

https://conservationco.org/giveonline/