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Welcome Regent Irene Griego
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper in late November appointed Irene Griego, Ph.D., to the University of Colorado Board of Regents, the university's elected governing board. She fills a vacancy left when Monisha Merchant resigned to work for Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet.
Griego, who represents Colorado's seventh Congressional district, is an experienced and accomplished woman who has spent her career in K-12 education, largely with Jefferson County Public Schools. She has been a teacher, administrator, principal and most recently director of Jeffco's Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
She also has taught at CU Denver and has two degrees from the university: a bachelor's from the University of Colorado Boulder in elementary education and a doctorate from the University of Colorado Denver in school administration. As Michael Carrigan, her colleague on the board, said at her swearing in, "Dr. Griego brings an amazing set of talents to the Board of Regents," adding that CU is "tremendously lucky" to have her. I agree completely.
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