Dusti Gurule is the President & CEO of the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR) and the COLOR Action Fund, Colorado’s leading reproductive justice organization. Dusti’s upbringing, rooted in the 1970s civil rights movements, laid the foundation for her lifelong commitment to social justice. In 2004, Dusti served as the founding Executive Director for the Latina Initiative, a civic engagement and political leadership organization that amplifies the voices of Colorado’s Latinas. From 2010 to 2017, Dusti was an appointee of President Obama, serving as a Regional Representative for the Secretary of Labor in seven states where she led education and coalition-building efforts. In addition to her work at COLOR, Dusti serves as the board chair for Voces Unidas Action Fund, a community-based advocacy organization in Colorado’s central mountain region. She earned a BA in Chicano Studies from MSU Denver and a master’s in Nonprofit Management from Regis University.