Reconnecting to Your Community w/ Darcy Kitching

In this episode, we welcome Darcy Kitching of Boulder, Colorado. Darcy is an experienced program director, talented storyteller, and truly a force of nature as an Activity Ambassador. Her formal training is in education and urban planning. She’s the principal owner of Places Make People, LLC a firm dedicated to improving places to better meet resident needs.

Since 2015 she’s served on the steering committee for the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Growing Up Boulder program working on broad-based initiatives to expand walkability, nature play, and child-friendly transportation & mobility options.

In addition, she’s the Boulder Program Director for the Walk2Connect organization leading the Boulder Ramblers overseeing engagement efforts in association with the City’s Boulder Walks program.

Helpful Links:
Bike Shop Girl Family Cyclery
Tern HSD
Denver's Snow Angels Program
Open Streets Events Guide
Seattle Play Streets
Boulder Block Party Program
Boulder Pedestrian Plan
Lamar, Colorado

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Credits:
All video and audio production by John Simmerman

Music:
Mikael.Manvelyan via AudioBlocks.com

Resources used during the production of this episode:
- My awesome recording platform is Ecamm
- Adobe Creative Cloud Suite

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Background:
Hi Everyone, my name is John Simmerman.

I’m a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience and my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.

In 2012 I launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places.

Since that time, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."

My Active Towns suite of channels feature my original video and audio content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.

Thanks for tuning in; I hope you have found this content helpful.

Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2020

Advocates for Healthy Communities, Inc. is a nonprofit 501c3 organization (EIN 45-3802508) dedicated to helping communities create a Culture of Activity. To donate, click here.