#betterDenverLisa Calderón, who now professes at Regis School, was Safehouse's social and legal policy head honcho from 1995 to 2007. Lisa Calderón is a survivor. Her life has actually been filled with personal hardship and domestic violence, but she turned her struggles into a success story and she now is the Director of the Community Reentry Project in Denver where she supervises 6 personnel who deal with behalf of formerly put behind bars individuals for their successful shift back into the neighborhood. Lisa has devoted her life to advocacy. As an attorney she is qualified as an professional witness on concerns of domestic violence and victim advocacy and has actually also served as the previous legal director of a battered females's program. As an active neighborhood member, Lisa is included with numerous community-based efforts to create more chances for low-income women, youth of color, and formerly incarcerated persons. Lisa has actually taken part in forming Colorado legislative initiatives by advocating for filing charge waivers for victims of domestic violence looking for protection orders, and reducing racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Lisa was a starting commissioner with Denver's Crime Prevention and Control Commission and currently serves on the State Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Avoidance Council. She is the co-chair of CPCC's Denver's Racial and Gender Disparities Committee, and advocates for the dignified and humane treatment of people caught-up in Denver's criminal justice system. In the little extra time she has, this unsung heroine teaches college courses in ladies and gender studies and has actually turned into one of Colorado's authorities on antiracism training and promoting for a more secure and healthier neighborhood by dealing with problems of domestic violence. Lisa's mother, Elaine Calderón is a graduate of West High School and went to Florence Crittenden School
