Many Mesa County Leadership Program graduates have gone on to serve on nonprofit and local government boards, become elected officials, and make a more visible contribution to the Western Slope.
More than 340 persons have graduated from the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce’s Mesa County Leadership Program since its beginning in 1993.
The chamber named the class of 2022 last week, bringing the total to 22.
The Mesa County Leadership Program’s 2022 class consists of the following individuals:
- BJ Venegas, Bank of the San Juans
- Bella Vaz, city of Grand Junction
- Andrea Lopez, Ute Water Conservancy District
- Ashley Thurow, Monument Health
- Monique Lange, Sooper Credit Union
- Scott Ferguson, Rocky Mountain Health Plans
- Scott Rust, city of Grand Junction
- Sean Steimel, Sean Steimel State Farm Agency
- Sheri Cogley, Rocky Mountain Health Plans
- Victoria Hildebrand, Mesa County Partners
- Zebulon Miracle, United Way of Mesa County Inc.
- Megan Greene, Grand Junction Federal Credit Union
- Luke Clayton, Barrett Business Services Inc.
- Kianna Colaizzi, Bank of Colorado
- Josh Carpenter, Rocky Mountain Sanitation
- Jane Pizem, Asset Engineering Limited
- Jack Pryzgoda, Hoskin Farina and Kampf, PC
- Eric Winder, Ed Bozarth Chevrolet and Buick, Inc.
- Edgar Hernandez, Eide Bailly, LLP
- David Payne, Ute Water Conservancy District
- Brett Thompson, Alpine Bank
- Meghan King, FCI Constructors Inc.
