Media & Awards
2025 Awards
Longmont Community Sustainability Leader:
Maren Waldman, Director/Founder Colorado Water Stories
“As someone without any formal sustainability or community organizing training, may this award be a reminder that anyone and everyone belongs in this deep, challenging, absolutely necessary, problem solving, spiritual conversation of how we can live in support of all LIFE.” ~Maren Waldman
Read full acceptance speech ~ Award given by Sustainable Resilient Longmont
Media
‘Heartstrings instead of just knowledge strings’: First annual Longmont Water Fair reckons with climate change and water scarcity through art by Colorado Reporting Lab
2025 Emerging Leader in Dance:
Mimi Ferrie Lee, Dandelion Arts Collective &
core Colorado Water Stories collaborator
“We're thrilled to recognize Mimi's contributions to dance in the region. The work that she's done as a founder of Anima Arts to get kids moving and playing - really, creating - as a way of understanding their bodies, the people, and the world around them is so important and so needed, especially in this time of profound social disconnection," says Curator of the Dance Archive, Kate Crowe.
Award given by The Dance Archive
Letter to the Editor about Longmont Water Fair
June 2025 ~ Longmont Times Call