Hillary Jorgensen
Colorado Health Foundation
The Colorado Health Foundation announced Hillary Jorgensen as its 2024 Dr. Virgilio Licona Community Health Leadership Award recipient. The Colorado Health Foundation will present the award on Oct. 2, 2024, at an award reception held in Hillary’s honor.
The Dr. Virgilio Licona Community Health Leadership Award honors on-the-ground changemakers tackling significant community health barriers and advancing health equity on both community and systems levels. Hillary, the Co-Executive Director of the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition (CCDC), actively advances health equity, significantly contributing to positive systems-level and community-level change and fostering connections throughout Colorado. She brings both her lived experience and extraordinary legal skills to her work as she fulfills CCDC’s mission: “We advocate for social justice for Coloradans with all types of disabilities.”