Rights For All People

Nicole Melaku, Administrator and Development Associate

nicole@rap-dpt.org

(303)893-3500 x100

Lisa Durán, Executive Director
lisa@rap-dpt.org
(303) 893-3500 x102
Lisa Durán has served since 2003 as the founding Executive Director for Rights for All People (RAP), an organizing project that brings the voices of immigrants to the struggle for justice for all Coloradans.  She has also led the establishment and development of the Aurora Human Rights Center, a collaborative space founded in October of 2010 with the participation of RAP, El Centro Humanitario, the Somali Community Center, the Lowry Family Center and the Strengthening Neighborhoods program of the Denver Foundation.  Lisa serves currently as a faculty coach for the Center for Progressive Leadership’s Colorado program, she is a co-founder of the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, for which RAP also served as fiscal sponsor, and she represents RAP nationally at National People’s Action.  A veteran of 33+ years of local and national movement-building work, Lisa first started organizing with the Labor/Community Strategy Center in the late 1980’s in Los Angeles.  Her previous experience with nonprofits includes serving as the first executive director of the Clínica Tepeyac in Denver, and providing national leadership to the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training, the Building Movement Project and the Highlander Center.  She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Swanee Hunt Individual Leadership Award, the Cesar E. Chavez Award from the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement,  the Immigrant Liberty Award from the Colorado Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and the Ralph L. Carr Award from the Colorado ACLU.  She has a master’s degree in political science from the University of California at Riverside and will shortly receive her Master of Public Affairs Degree from the University of Colorado at Denver.

Liz Hamel, Lead Community Organizer 
liz@rap-dpt.org
(303) 893-3500 x105

RAP also counts on the support of various interns from various universities and community based organizations.