TJP Colorado Gives Day 2026

I am proud to be on the board of the Transformative Justice Project of Colorado (TJP) and support an organization working to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline and build a more just future for young people across Colorado.

As a civil rights and criminal defense attorney and former teacher, I have seen how systems of inequality, punishment, and exclusion disproportionately impact young people—particularly youth of color, youth in poverty, and youth with disabilities. TJP is committed to challenging those systems.  

Please join me in supporting TJP, an organization grounded in community, relationships, healing, and the belief that every young person deserves to be supported, empowered, and given the opportunity to thrive. Your contribution helps provide young people with legal advocacy, mental health services, court support, education about their constitutional rights, and opportunities to move beyond the barriers created by the systems around them.

Together, we can help keep kids in school, out of prison, and connected to the communities and opportunities they deserve.

JOIN THE MONARCH CIRCLE

Monarch Circle members give monthly, so TJP can be there month after month, for as long as it takes. Your first monthly gift is matched up to $100 by Colorado Gives Foundation while its match fund lasts. Choose an amount, check "make it recurring" and pick monthly.

$10 a month: dinner for a TJP youth at Community Night

$15 a month: LYRIC know-your-rights materials for a classroom

$25 a month: over a year, the court costs to clear one young person's record

$50 a month: helps a young person pay down court fines, fees and restitution

$100 a month: crisis help, like emergency housing, a phone bill or a car repair

Thank you for standing with young people and their families.