FRESC's Board is comprised of partners from labor and the community. 

Holman F. Carter
(President, Amalgamated Transit Union Local, ATU, 1001)
Holman has been a member of ATU 1001 since 1980. He became a steward in 2001, and was elected President in 2006. ATU International represents over 190,000 transit workers in The United States and Canada. ATU Local 1001 represents over 2100 transit workers in the Denver metro area including workers for RTD, First Transit and Veolia.

George DeMartino
(Associate Professor, International Economics, University of Denver)
Educated at Harvard, and with a PhD in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Professor DeMartino is a specialist in economic globalization, with a particular emphasis on the ethical aspects of economic policy. His publications include Global Economy, Global Justice (Routledge, 2000). He is currently at work on a book that argues for professional ethics for economists. Prof. DeMartino also has a long-standing interest in labor issues. He was actively involved in labor organizing and progressive politics in New England before coming to the University of Denver in 1993.

John Fleck, FRESC Secretary-Treasurer
(President, Denver Area Labor Federation)
John Fleck has been a member of Sheet Metal Workers, Local 9 for twenty-five years.  A graduate of the Sheet Metal Apprenticeship, he worked as a construction worker for more than a decade.  He also championed standards in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning industry (HVAC) in many capacities--as an active member engaged in building construction and mentoring new apprentices, as an organizer working in partnership with contractors and workers, to an elected union leader advocating for improved workplace standards.  He has been at the forefront of recruiting women and minorities into the Building Trades, and has helped draw both his union and the Building Trades as a whole into closer integration and cooperation not only with the larger labor movement but also with community. In 2007, John was elected as the President of the Denver Area Labor Federation (DALF). 

Katie Gerken
(Colorado Organizing Project Director, UNITE-HERE)
Katie moved to Denver in 2005 to lead the organizing of workers at Denver’s Hyatt under UNITE-HERE.  The union represents more than 450,000 active members and more than 400,000 retirees throughout North America.

Carol Hedges
(Carol Hedges Senior Fiscal Policy Analyst  Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute)
Carol has been a dynamic and forceful figure in policy development in Colorado since the mid 90s.  Her experience includes time in policy development for Governor Roy Romer, program administration in workforce development at Denver’s Piton Foundation and research, analysis and advocacy in state fiscal issues the Bell Policy Center and the Colorado Center on Law and Policy (CCLP).  She is a recognized expert on the effects of Colorado’s TABOR amendment.  Her current work with CCLP’s Fiscal Policy Institute focuses on improving the commitment to public structures as a way to improvement Colorado communities.

Calvin Johnson
(Executive Director, Service Employees International Union Local 105)

Leslie Moody
(Executive Director, Partnership for Working Families)
Leslie Moody is Executive Director of the Partnership for Working Families, dedicated to building power and reshaping the economy for workers and communities.  From 1998-2007, Leslie served as the first woman president of the Denver Area Labor Federation (DALF), through which she helped to found FRESC in 2002.  Under her leadership, DALF and FRESC together trained hundreds of union, community and student organizers; supported organizing and policy campaigns impacting thousands of workers; and helped block millions of dollars in public subsidy to Wal-Mart and other low-road employers.  Leslie co-chaired the Campaign for Responsible Development from 2003-2006, through Denver’s first Community Benefits Campaign focused on the Cherokee-Gates redevelopment.

Kim Ursetta
(President, Denver Classroom Teachers Association)
Kim is currently teaching 5th grade ELA-S at Newlon Elementary, along with serving as President of the DCTA. She has been teaching for 11 years, has taught second through fifth grade, and Descubriendo la lectura (Spanish version of Reading Recovery) serving at risk first graders. Kim earned an M.A. in Bilingual/ Multicultural Education with an emphasis in Early Spanish literacy from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2003.