MDHWC Key Staff members

MDHWC Key Staff

The Metro Denver Health and Wellness Commission is served by a professional staff with many years of experience in the health and public policy arenas.

Michele Baker is the Program Director of the Metro Denver Health and Wellness Commission and Civic Results. Michele Baker joined Civic Results in 2004 as a Program Associate. Michele's responsibilities include web design and content management, conference and event planning, and all aspects of program implementation. Michele has been the Administrative Director, the interim manager of the Alliance for Regional Stewardship (a partnering organization) and most recently, as Program Coordinator to the MDHWC and the Livable Communities Support Center. Michele is a graduate of Ohio University where she received a Bachelor of Specialized Studies in Management and Communications and a Minor in Psychology. Michele is also the founder and former trustee of the Five Angels Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Ohio.

Peter Kenney, is a co-founder of the Denver-based Center for Regional and Neighborhood Action (CRNA), that created CIVIC RESULTS, a nonprofit organization dedicated to linking the energy at the neighborhood level with regional strategies that involve collaboration among government, business, nonprofit organizations and citizens to improve the quality of life of all residents.  He has twenty years of policy development and management experience as an elected official in municipal and county government. He was a Clear Creek County Commissioner, chairman of the Clear Creek County Planning Commission, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) for seven years, serving as chair of the Executive Committee and vice chair of the Board of Directors.

Paige Heydon-McCrary is a Senior Associate at Civic Results and the Program Director of Livable Communities Support Center. On behalf of LCSC, Paige manages a number of local and statewide healthy eating and active living including the LiveWell Wheat Ridge project, a formative research effort to design a healthy living peer to peer learning network and most recently, the Healthiest Communities Team of the Metro Denver Health and Wellness Commission. Paige also works on a number of projects aimed at promoting pedestrian friendly community design and transit oriented development in the Denver metro area. Paige is part of the 2007 Emerging Leaders Program of the Downtown Denver Partnership and in that capacity, is working to help develop a business engagement plan for the Greenprint Denver Program. Prior to LCSC, Paige was the Administrative Director at Civic Results and the Interim Executive Director for the Colorado League of Women Voters. Paige hails, most recently, from the Northwest where she developed a special interest library collection and coordinated a high volume grants program at a Seattle-area foundation which focused on exploring long-term futures. Paige holds a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science as well as a Masters of Nonprofit Management from Regis University .

Wendy Peters Moschetti joined Civic Results in the fall of 2007. Through her work at Civic Results, she manages the Metro Denver Health and Wellness Schools & Early Childhood Team and supports the work of the MDHWC Healthiest Communities Team to develop access to local, healthy foods. Wendy has also worked with the national Healthy Eating-Active Living Convergence Partnership, helping to conduct their formative research effort to design a healthy living peer to peer learning network. Prior to joining the Civic Results team, Wendy was the Project Coordinator for the Gardens for Growing Healthy Communities project, a 4-year research project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention based at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center . Prior to moving to Colorado in 2005, Wendy was a Project Manager at the planning, design and communications firm, Moore Iacofano Goltsman (MIG), Inc, in Berkeley, CA, specializing in collaborative planning for rivers and watersheds, parks and recreation, and county social services. Wendy holds a BA in Social Work from the University of Washington and a Masters in City Planning from the University of California-Berkeley.