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Connecting Voices Across Colorado

Ambassador64 is a statewide movement to connect with every county in Colorado—because everyone deserves to feel seen, heard, and valued through public media that truly reflects the people.

Led by Rocky Mountain Public Media, this initiative brings together individuals and organizations who are already trusted connectors in their communities. Ambassadors help build strong, two-way relationships between local residents, their newsrooms, and RMPM.

Each Ambassador carries something powerful—the voice of their community. By sharing local stories, insights, and everyday experiences, Ambassadors help ensure that Colorado’s public media truly represents the realities and hopes of the people who live here. Their voices make the invisible visible, the local universal, and the personal part of the public record.

Together, we’re co-creating a Colorado where the media isn’t something that happens to communities, but with them.

For more information, visit https://www.rmpbs.org/civic-engagement/ambassador64.

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Notes from El Paso County

I am James Proby, the founder and proprietor of The Men’s Xchange in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Before that, I was the son of Rev. Milton Proby and Mildred Proby. Both were civil rights activists. My father was known as the state’s leading authority on civil rights, and my mother was, by my account, the first African American school teacher in School District 11.

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