She has always chosen to work in Independent Media and believes deeply in the need for true, authentic Community Journalism.
She learned that by helping her customers with design and marketing, their campaigns would be far more successful and has made a 30+ year career in design, copywriting, and marketing for her clients. Having no experience and nothing more than a couple of years as an art college attendee she felt the bug to work in media at a young age. She got her start in media at the age of 21 in Santa Cruz, California as an advertising sales rep. She left for California after school and returned to Colorado in 1990. Shavonne Blades grew up on the West Coast but moved to Colorado in High School. Gregg Gallozzi APA Vice President / Real Estate Broker at Cherry Creek Properties How is the public supposed to trust you when your officers are sending mixed signals? Get your shit together /le58C5CHx4Īurora Police Association Board of Directors The majority are currently employed at Aurora Police Department.īob Wesner APA President / Police Lieutenant / Public Safety Communications Director at Aurora Colorado Police Department They claim to represent ALL of the APD with statements like "OUR officers did nothing wrong". You should probably have them cease & desist or clarify. Based on this statement by the APA which denounced any wrongdoing by officers in the death of Elijah McClain, how much has the ongoing violent culture within the APD really changed? Will the APD further distance themselves from this organization by terminating employment for these officers? The Community asked some good questions around this as well. Considering there are no Board of Directors listed on the website - and we had to dig up their tax filing to get that information on this non-profit - who wrote this statement and released it? Most APA Board members are currently employed by the Aurora Police Department or were previously employed by APD.