Julie Sarama is a distinguished professor at University of Denver’s Morgridge College of Education. She initially taught middle and high school mathematics before going on to develop over 50 computer programs which aid students and teachers in their understanding of math concepts. 

DU’s IGNITE National Chapter held an event on climate justice and women in politics hosting the speaker Dr. Diana Bray on February 14. Bray is running for the US Senate seat currently held by Cory Gardner. She is a DU Alum and her platform’s focus is on climate justice activism, divestment from fossil fuels, and female empowerment.

“I started working to regulate the [petroleum] industry with those few [grassroot organizations] who were, because our state government was not interested in doing that and has not been interested in doing that,” said Bray. She is now working to be this change.

IGNITE is a national, non-partisan organization that works to empower women in political leadership positions. There are chapters in colleges and even high schools across many states in the US. IGNITE is continuing to expand and recently, a chapter at DU was reinstated. 

On a frigid sunday afternoon in downtown Denver, Chasten Buttigieg was brought in to Metro State to talk about a change in leadership being necessary in the white house. Today he is speaking on behalf of his husband and current democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg. The venue is a classroom inside the kings center and 35 people are anxiously sitting and patiently waiting the arrive of Mr. Buttigieg.

DENVER— Vermont Senator, Bernie Sanders, spoke in Denver at the Colorado Convention Center on Sun., Feb. 16, 2020, with the hopes of persuading voters for the upcoming election. This is Sander’s second run for the Democratic nomination for president, having lost to Hilary Clinton in 2016. 

DENVER- The Morgridge College of Education at DU felt like heaven to the group of people there to glean a bit of knowledge on Tuesday, as it sheltered them from the chill of a mid-winter afternoon. On Tuesday, Feb. 18, Dr. Julie Sarama, the co-executive director of the Marsico Institute for Early Learning and Literacy, came to Denver to give a talk on one of her creations, the “Building Blocks” curriculum for young students focused primarily on mathematics.

[DENVER] Within Sanders speech he addressed key issues that are fundamental to his policies such as health care, taxes and wealth disparity. Sanders declared to the Coloradan crowd that he is going to be the president to make a change, and how this change was going to start with the working people.

“The only way that change ever takes place in this country is from the bottom on up not the top down,” said Sanders.

Of all things people could be thinking about, math isn’t often one of them. If anything, math is a subject often pushed by the wayside once it’s no longer an academic requirement. It becomes a dead and irrelevant skill to a great deal of people at a certain point.  

Julie Sarama, however, an acclaimed mathematics professor, researcher and program developer, claims math is something that matters far more that we think it does.

It’s a critical time in the political year, and this holds true especially for Colorado which has its primary in less than three weeks on Mar. 3. This past Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders came to the convention center to speak to over 11,000 Coloradans.