Nina Lopez Consulting provide facilitation, strategy and innovation design services to help individuals and organizations strategically position their existing assets to leverage partnerships and funding opportunities.
Nina Lopez works with private foundations, non-profit and government entities in Colorado and throughout the country to incubate new initiatives and enhance existing projects. She provides facilitation, strategy and innovation design services to help individuals and organizations strategically position their existing assets to leverage partnerships and funding opportunities. Nina is a recognized leader in K-12 education having been appointed to several state level commissions including the Colorado School Finance Task Force and the Governor’s Council for Educator Effectiveness. Prior to launching her consulting practice, Nina served as the Vice President of Research and Impact at the Colorado Education Initiative (formerly Colorado Legacy Foundation) (CEI). In that role, she led CEI’s efforts to cultivate partnerships with local school districts as well as state and national associations. She specialized in finding innovative ways to leverage those partnerships to achieve improved outcomes for Colorado students. As the Special Assistant to the Commissioner at the Colorado Department of Education (CDE), Nina coordinated the use of federal stimulus funds, including the submission of three Race to the Top applications. Nina also led CDE’s initial implementation of Colorado’s landmark legislation to create a statewide performance evaluation system for public school educators. Since 2003, she has worked with a variety of organizations in K-12 education on policy development and implementation as well as advocacy and technical support in everything from online learning to charter schools to school finance. Prior to 2003, Nina practiced corporate law for nine years. Nina serves on the Reisher Family Scholarship Committee at the Denver Foundation and also as Vice-President of the Board of Trustees for The Bixby School. Nina lives in Boulder, CO with her husband and two children. She has a B.A. in Literature from Harvard-Radcliffe College and a J.D. from Columbia University.

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