M E M B E R S

Douglas Gardner grew up in Wellesley Ma. and had the urge to travel from an early age. After graduating from Denison University with a dual degree in Economics and English, he scratched that travel itch by joining the Peace Corps for service in Burkina Faso.

A subsequent masters degree in business, leading to a job in the three-piece suit on Wall Street with the Chase Manhattan Bank did not cut it. Instead, he found his real calling working for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for over 30 years, with assignments around the globe in places like Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Mongolia, Ukraine, as well as New York).

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One one of the newest members of the Highland | City Club team, Addison Smalley will be assisting at the concierge desk, helping with Lunch and Happy Hours, and a myriad of other things to keep the cogs turning.

He grew up in Golden, Colorado and has since made Boulder his new home. You may often find him riding his Trials Bicycle on the CU campus, Dirt Biking in the Colorado Mountains, or even Downhill Skateboarding on the local steep hills.

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Parker Johnson was born to sing. A boy soprano by age 7, Parker joined his first rock band at age 15, and took a gap year at age 18 to travel to 11 European countries and 22 US states to sing with Up With People. Attending college at UNC-Chapel Hill, Parker’s rock band travelled up and down the east coast, playing the fraternity/sorority circuit from the University of Florida to Ohio State.

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Tommi Wolfe was raised in Africa, lived barefoot till she was 12, and learned to be tough and resilient thanks to having a lot of brothers. She started birdwatching at age four, leading to her lifelong passion for nature and conservation of our breathtaking planet.

Widowed young, Tommi learned how fleeting and precious life is. Ever since she has been committed to helping people live their dreams and not take life for granted.

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Jocelyn Levesque was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and grew up backpacking, fishing and skiing with her family. Her formative years were full of exploration and travel, attending university in California and a year abroad in Madrid.

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Born and raised in LA, Elisheva lived in Philadelphia, New York, Sydney and Tel Aviv before moving to Boulder three years ago, and claims she has never loved living anywhere as much as she loves living in Boulder.

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Yesterday Michael Kosacoff who grew to be a good friend and a City Club Honorary Member passed to the other side of the veil.

Michael was a brilliant guy on many fronts. A psychotherapist by profession, a Sufi and an ordained Rabbi, Michael liked to read, learn, play the piano, and argue. No matter how many points of view we already had at the table, we always knew we could count on Michael to get yet another one.

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Roger Linfield was born in the Boston area and moved west in stages, eventually reaching Southern California. He attended graduate school in astronomy at Caltech and worked for 18 years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Being at JPL made it possible to use telescopes in space, which opened up a new world for Roger.

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Ben grew up on an apple orchard in central Washington, where he learned the value of an active imagination. He played rugby in college, where he learned the brain is a magnificent, yet very sensitive organ.

Like many of us, he's lived in several places (Portland, Boston, San Francisco, Perth, Honduras, his van, etc.) which helped him learn that moving often is a great way to pair down the number of things you own.

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Stewart grew up in Miami in the 80's and adopted the island spirit by wearing white linen suits and powder blue shirts everywhere he goes. By the end of boarding school in New England, Stewart had enough of Northeast weather, and with some luck ended up at University of Colorado in Boulder.

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Born in Germany, Priya has lived in France, India, and for the past fourteen years, America. Priya's life journey includes various roles such as a punk and a French countess, before going to India as a nun to do humanitarian work. While in India, Priya helped build an ashram before having her daughter twelve years ago, and has worked as an international interpreter and translator in the Olympic Winter Games.

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Raised in Hinsdale, IL, Catherine graduated early from Mt. Holyoke College to attend chef school, and proceeded to cook and write professionally. Along the way she relocated eleven times, each time fixing or building houses. 

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City Club Business Member Matthew Klein is the co-Founder and CEO of Backbone, Boulder's fastest-growing solution provider for product development and design software, paving the way for thousands of successful and emerging designers. With decades of experience in the retail and consumer goods industries, Matthew built an extensive knowledge of getting products to market and tackling the industry’s largest hurdles developing quality consumer products while reducing waste and improving speed-to-market

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Hailing from Australia, Alex is one of City Club's (and America’s?!) newest recruits. A happy victim of Chief Niwot’s curse (if you sleep in the shadow of the Flatirons, you will always return), Alex has fallen in love with Boulder, Highland and the wonderful people who call it home.

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Ed is VP of Machine Learning at Nurx, a telemedicine startup providing safe and affordable access to healthcare for sensitive health conditions such as reproductive health and HIV prevention.  

Ed came to Boulder fifteen years ago to serve as a professor and department-chair at University of Colorado. After a decade as a faculty member, Ed left CU to build AI and data science practices at Seagate and Sears, and help launch several startups.  

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Julie is the Executive Director of the Oreg Foundation, which, amongst many other good deeds, has led the effort of to create the magnificent Boulder Jewish Commons, the campus that includes the JCC at the NE corner of Arapahoe and Cherryvale Roads in Boulder.

Julie feels fortunate to be able to combine her personal passions with her professional work in supporting educational, environmental, Jewish and local community service initiatives. She has been involved in Colorado’s non-profit world as a professional and lay leader for over 25 years, and serves on the Board of Directors of several other non-profit organizations and committees. 

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Catherine Walker was born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina. She received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina and a Graduate Degree in Wine Studies from the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone. Upon graduation from the CIA, she passed levels one and two of The Court of Master Sommeliers Examinations. In addition to six years in the Wine and Beverage Industry as a Sommelier, Manager and Sales Professional, she spent the last two years working as a Stylist and Sales Professional for a concept space that combines contemporary fashion with fine art. We feel fortunate to have Catherine as an integral part of City Club’s new management team.

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Scott Peppet is the President of the Chai Trust Company, a family office based in Chicago, and Director of several public and private corporate boards.

Amongst other things, Scott is a Professor of Law (University of Colorado Law School, 2000-2018), teaching contract law, negotiation, counseling family enterprises, the law of non-profits, and legal ethics. Scott is an ordained Zen priest, and a backcountry hiker and skier who uses his substantial knowledge and influence to fight global warming.

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