Writer and editor living at a mile high.
Natasha Gardner’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a gridHow Colorado Women Won the Right To Vote-And What Now?
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August 2020 marks 100 years since the 19th Amendment was ratified, granting women across America the right to vote. In Colorado, we're celebrating nearly 130 years since our state's voters extended franchise to women. The fight for equal access to the voting booth, however, particularly for women of color, wasn't over then.
Colorado Faithless Elector Case Goes to the U.S. Supreme Court
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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Colorado Department of State v. Baca this spring. How did this case about the 2016 presidential election and the state's electors make it to the country's highest court, and what does it mean for the 2020 election?
National Western Center Project: What You Need to Know
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There's a large-scale infill project happening in the middle of Denver. Here's what's going up, what's coming down, who's paying for it all, and how it will change the National Western Stock Show forever.
Why Does Hail Pummel Colorado and How Can We Prepare for It? - 5280
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With hailstorms so common on the Front Range-and insurance payouts from the resulting damage increasing-how can we ready ourselves for the impending storms?
Leslie Herod Has a Story to Share
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Forget political stereotypes: This history-making legislator is unapologetically progressive, is insistent that state government can be bipartisan (even now), and wants to transform the criminal justice system. And that's just the start of her ambitions.
Disrupters: 15 People Who Are Changing Denver - 5280
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These individuals—Jeff Fard, Brandon Rietheimer, Blake Angelo, Amanda Henderson, Tay Anderson, Elisabeth Epps, Tran Wills, Merhia Wiese, Mike Biselli, Candi CdeBaca, Faith Winter, Anthony Garcia Sr., Jennifer Knowles, Evan Weissman, Maytham Alshadood—are guaranteed to keep you thinking and talking well into the future, whether you agree with them or not.
How Denver's Disability Activists Transformed the City - 5280
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Forty years ago, disability activists stopped traffic at the corner of Broadway and Colfax Avenue and changed the way the United States works. But that wasn't the start—or the end—of their civil rights fight.
How to Turn Female Athletes into CEOs
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Rhian Wilkinson was cut from her high school soccer team. And from the Canadian youth national team. And a few other squads along the way, all of which she rattles off without hesitation. She's as quick to list these failures as she is her accomplishments on the field-and she has plenty of those.
Direct Fail - 5280
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Welcome to Colorado. One of seven states in the country where district attorneys can unilaterally decide when to criminally prosecute kids as adults. * This article was a finalist for the 2012 National Magazine Awards in the public interest category. It was also a finalist for a 2012 City and Regional Magazine Award in the civic journalism category.