Denver Deep Dive

The Denver Deep Dive is an experiential learning opportunity for all metro area alumni to leave with a deeper understanding of systems around them including the foundations of systems, how they are upheld and who plays a role in them.

Alumni will have the opportunity to:

share their lived experience
critically analyze systems and their role within them
expand social connections

All in service of empowering community leaders in and around the metro area. Alumni will engage in a co-created experience that includes designing an action orientation plan to continue their learning in the city and beyond.

WHAT TO EXPECT

During this experience, our intention is for alumni leave with a deeper understanding of systems they have navigated throughout their experience in the Denver Metro Area. They will be equipped with the skills, resources, and connections to interrogate the systems they navigate everyday.

We will learn the many ways in which one as a Denverite can be civically engaged throughout the city. The preposition is to explore civic engagement in the city through the K-12 education system, post secondary education, and socioeconomic mobility. At the conclusion of this program, its participants will be able to create a personalized civic engagement plan, so they can build agency within the community to make an impact in the city that raised us.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

In order to qualify for the Denver Deep Dive you must meet the following requirements:

Have attended a Denver Metro area high school (Aurora Public Schools, Adams12 Schools, Cherry Creek Schools, Denver Public Schools, Jeffco Public Schools) between 2008-2025
Willingness to collaborate with others
Willingness to step outside of your comfort zone to grow
Curiosity to learn about Denver
Commitment to be present during each session

You are a good fit for this program if you are asking the following questions:

Do I understand the role that systems play in my everyday life?
Am I confident in my ability to navigate those systems?
Do I understand the issues that plague my community?
Do I know how to critically evaluate a system that empowers and/or harms my community?
Do I know how to engage in systems change?

WHAT TO EXPECT

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

KEY DATES & COMMITMENT