JA Board Member Honored With National Recognition
Ed Nekritz, JA-Rocky Mountain Board Member and current Senior Advisor for Prologis after serving as the company's first Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel for almost 30 years, will be...
Maxwell Skidmore: “I feel like I’m doing something right”
Maxwell Skidmore graduated from Northfield High School in May 2023. He attended a JA summer program, where his energy, positivity, and ambition were quickly noticed by JA staff and volunteers....
2025 Colorado Business Hall of Fame Laureates Announced
The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain are proud to announce the 2025 inductees into the Colorado Business Hall of Fame, representing Colorado’s most distinguished business leaders...
Kim McGrigg: “I’m happy to be part of the solution”
For a period of about ten years, Kim McGrigg was known as “Susan.” No, she wasn’t in the witness protection program. She was an online advice columnist for a company...
Mazza FarajAllah: “Talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not”
Mazza was born and raised in Saudi Arabia to Sudanese parents and moved to Colorado in November 2020. Six months later, she started working for the Western Union Foundation, which...
Steve Goldman: “I was instantly hooked”
Steve is an entrepreneur at heart. In 2006, he co-founded Workforce Insight, a software and consulting firm, growing it to over 200 employees before selling it to a large private...
Beth King: “Watching young people be so engaged is so rewarding”
Born and raised in Littleton, Beth King attended Columbine High School and then spent 32 years at Lockheed Martin in Engineering and Business Development. Lockheed Martin participated in the Corporate...
Rachel Caliga: “Rather than them dreading work, they are thriving”
Rachel did not plan on being a teacher at first. After realizing the corporate world wasn’t for her, she wanted to coach basketball and figured teaching would be the best...
Local High School Students Compete In Live Stock Market Simulations
In early November, Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain hosted JA Stock Market Challenge competitions in Metro Denver and in Northern Colorado. These hands-on, high-tech simulations introduce high school students to the fundamentals...
