Michelle Atlas-Quinn

Vice President of RIA Operations at AdvisorLaw

Ms. Atlas-Quinn has over 20 years of Industry experience. She has provided training and compliance support at large firms such as Transamerica Capital, at dually licensed independent firms, and now manages and oversees a compliance team that supports over 275 small/medium RIAs. Additionally, she is a licensed attorney (CO Reg #48308) and has experience defending both customer disputes and regulatory actions.

Ken Brown

Senior Pastor, Trinity United Methodist Church

Ken Brown is the Senior Pastor at Trinity United Methodist Church-Denver’s longest, continuous gathering church. Clara Brown, a Black pioneer, was a founding presence at the church in 1859 and his congregation is inclusive-no boundaries, no conditions. 

Rev. Brown has pastored over three decades in United Methodist tradition with a strong skill set leading larger churches with small group groups and change management profiles. He has four daughters, three of whom are in the medical field. Rev. Brown’s greatest source of happiness are his four grandsons! 

Tara Cleare

Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Envision Healthcare

Tara Cleare is a seasoned healthcare attorney with more than two decades of experience both as in-house legal counsel and law firm attorney, serving a wide variety of clients including hospitals, medical groups, and physicians. Tara currently leads the Corporate & Service Line Operations Lane of the Envision Healthcare Legal Team which oversees both facility and vendor contracting for the enterprise.

Before joining Envision, Tara worked for the University of Colorado Health system (“UCHealth”) as one of the senior attorneys for University of Colorado Hospital (“UCH”), part of the academic medical center. Tara served as the legal liaison for the Metro Denver region of UCHealth where she handled a variety of legal matters for multiple hospitals including the opening and legal operations of UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital. Before UCHealth, Tara served as Corporate Counsel at Catholic Health Initiatives with responsibility for CHI’s Tennessee, and Ohio hospital systems, and previously for their Pennsylvania and New Jersey hospital systems. Prior to that, she was a partner at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings law firm in Nashville, Tennessee where she started her career as an associate on the health care team in 2001.

Tara received both her law degree and her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. Tara lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband and sons. In non-pandemic years, she enjoys traveling, especially to The Bahamas where she grew up and where her family still resides.

Patrece Hairston Peetz, PsyD

Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Colorado Perinatal Mental Health Project (CO-PMHP)

Patrece Hairston Peetz, PsyD is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Colorado Perinatal Mental Health Project (CO-PMHP) a non-profit organization located in Denver, Colorado, USA. In addition to serving as the Colorado Chapter of Postpartum Support International, Dr. Hairston Peetz leads a team that is focused on providing support, clinical tools, and increasing access to emotional wellness services to mothers and birthing people. She developed a group-based perinatal mental health intervention called The Birth Squad, which focuses on building community for new parents, managing symptomatology around perinatal mood disorders, and building resilience as families cope with the struggles that frequently accompany new parenthood.

Dr. Hairston Peetz has also worked in the public policy sphere, within non-profit management leadership roles, as a Psychologist within integrated primary care settings, and has served as a consultant for several local and national organizations on achieving equitable access for Black Mothers and birthing people around perinatal mental health. Dr. Hairston Peetz has also worked in academic settings, including as an Adjunct professor at the University of Denver – Graduate School of Professional Psychology and has conducted several trainings for medical and mental health professionals on the intersection of equity and perinatal mental health. She recently published a chapter entitled “Perinatal Depression in People of Color” in The International Handbook of Perinatal Mental Health Disorders and has participated in several community-based participatory research efforts in her local Denver community and nationally.

Rev. Zelna Joseph, PhD

Executive Director of Christian Healing Network

Reverend Zelna Joseph, PhD, is the Executive Director of Christian Healing Network DBA Mission Medical Center, a free primary care clinic and dental clinic serving uninsured adults in El Paso and Teller counties. She is also the Founder/President/CEO of the S/HE Identity, Inc. a nonprofit organization dedicated to mentoring, empowering, educating, and encouraging women to build a new self-image through spiritual guidance to achieve whole person wellness (body, soul, and spirit) from the spiritual foundation that God created woman in his image, equal with man and equally blessed by God. Reverend Joseph is a visionary leader, author, speaker, ordained minister, and non-profit management consultant with over 35 + years of leading faith and community-based, non-profit organizations.

She founded United We Stand Women’s Center to meet the spiritual, emotional, and physical needs of women and families and developed a teen development awareness program to help disadvantaged teenage girls in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Later she relocated to Washington, DC and served as Executive Director of a teen prostitution prevention organization, where she led a team of experts to Russia to help develop HIV/AIDS prevention outreach programs which directly impacted Russian sex workers. To this day she continues to fight against human sex trafficking and works to help sex trafficking victims and survivors. Rev. Joseph also served as President and CEO of an organization that helped homeless women with housing and offered a residential drug addiction recovery program. Working under the tutelage of Dorothy I. Height at the National Council of Negro Women, she helped conduct a nationwide public education campaign for aging African American women.

She later returned to Colorado to lead a faith-based organization providing free medical clinics and healthcare to uninsured/underinsured people and also served as the Executive Director of the El Paso County Bar Association where she founded the Justice Center to help the poor obtain free legal services. Reverend Joseph is a strong leader, experienced in organization and program development, strategic planning, fund development and coalition building. She is a researcher experienced in survey development, data collection, and reporting. She is proficient in Microsoft 365 and many applications serving business and nonprofit organizations. She is a former City Councilwoman and has served on numerous boards and commissions. She devoted her life to helping under-served women, children and families and works to build strong, healthy communities. Rev. Joseph envisions a world where women, men and all people work together as equals to solve societal problems to ensure the health and well-being of future generations.

Monique D. Washington

Deputy District Attorney, Eighteenth Judicial District

Monique Washington is an experienced attorney and U.S. Army Reserve Major with over a decade of distinguished legal service. She has served as a Deputy District Attorney for Colorado’s 18th Judicial District since 2011, where she has tried an array of criminal cases throughout Arapahoe and Douglas Counties.

Monique’s military career spans multiple assignments, including a deployment to Baghdad, Iraq, where she served as Administrative and Operational Law Attorney for Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, advising coalition commanders across 70+ partner nations. She currently serves as an Assistant Career Manager within the Office of the Judge Advocate General, providing career counseling and development guidance to fellow Judge Advocate Officers around the country.

A graduate of Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law and Spelman College, Monique is licensed to practice law in Colorado. Among her military decorations are the Joint Meritorious Unit Award, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal with one Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster , Operation Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal, and Armed Forces Reserve Medal with “M Device”, reflecting her commitment to serving both her country and local communities.