School Board Advocacy
Get to know the candidates
Boulder Valley School District
(There were no incumbents in this race.)
District A: Jason Unger
District C: Alex Medler
District D: Lalenia Quinlan Aweida
District G: Jorge Chavez
St. Vrain Valley School District
(The St. Vrain Valley School Board election was canceled after only one candidate filed for each seat.)
District A: Jacqueline Weiss (unopposed)
District C: James Berthold (unopposed)
District E: Michelle Sulek (unopposed)
District G: Geno Lechuga (unopposed)
As a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, we cannot endorse any candidate. Rather, we work to understand and share information with our constituents about the candidates and their stances on topics that are important to our community.
We took two approaches: a candidate questionnaire and school board forums. As part of our expansion into northern Colorado, we have reached out to candidates from the following school districts:
Boulder Valley
St. Vrain Valley
Poudre
Thompson
Find the questionnaires and recordings of the forums below.
2023 School Board Results
The results are in!
Below you’ll find the winners of the 2023 school board elections in Boulder, Poudre, St. Vrain Valley, and Thompson counties. Click on the headers for each school district to see respondents’ answers to OBC’s questionnaire.
District A: Scott Schoenbauer (unopposed)
District B: Kevin Havelda
District F: Conor Duffy
District G: Jessica Zamora
District A: Dawn Kirk
District C: not yet called
District D: Denise Chapman
District G: Stu Boyd (incumbent)
Candidate Questionnaires
We know election season is a hectic time for candidates, which is why OBC would like to extend our gratitude to the following school board candidates who took the time to answer our 2023 questionnaire (click the school district headers to see respondents’ answers; the PDF guides includes bookmarks to help you move between different candidates.):
Boulder Valley School District: Jason Unger, Neil Fishman, Alex Medler, Cynthia Nevison, Andrew Brandt, Lalenia Quinlan Aweida, George Chavez, and Stuart Lord
Poudre School District: Kevin Havelda, Kurt Kastein, and Jessica Zamora
St. Vrain Valley School District: Jacqueline Weiss and Geno Lechuga
Thompson School District: Dawn Kirk, Briah Freeman, and Denise Alvine Chapman
We invited all the School Board candidates in the 4 districts to complete the candidate questionnaire about various topics that are impactful for all students, especially LGBTQ+ and other historically marginalized students. You can review the questions here.
Questionnaire topics include:
discipline and bullying
book bans
restorative justice
achievement gaps
charter schools
inclusive Social Studies standards
Candidate Forums
We are hosted three school board candidate forums, for Boulder Valley, Poudre, and Thompson School Districts.
You can watch recordings of these forums below.
Boulder Valley School Board Candidate Forum
Thank you Tom Parkin for making this video possible!
Thompson School Board Candidate Forum
Thank you Abdulaziz Yusufjanov for making this video possible!
Poudre School Board Candidate Forum
Thank you Abdulaziz Yusufjanov for making this video possible!