Denver Metro Chamber Of Commerce: Creating Paths To Better Jobs For All Coloradans

Press release from Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce:

Kelly Brough

April 12, 2021

We also know that Black and Hispanic Coloradans are disproportionately represented in our prison population. Black Coloradans make up 12% of arrests and 22% of the prison population, but only 4% of our state’s total population. Hispanics make up 28% of arrests and 20% of the prison population, but only 19% of the state’s population.

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Andrew Schmidt, a Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation board member, a 2015 Leadership Denver alum and TOSA Board chair, was instrumental in bringing TOSA to Colorado. We visited TOSA in 2016 on our Leadership Exchange trip to Salt Lake City. Andrew, along with an advisory council from that trip and in collaboration with TOSA in Salt Lake City, paved the way for the nonprofit’s first expansion site here in 2019.

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This press release was produced by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce. The views expressed here are the author’s own.