Kristi Burton Brown – State Board of Education, CD4

My friends call me KBB, and I hope you will, too. My background in education started as the child of trailblazers. My parents dove headfirst into homeschooling when it had barely become legal. When I was nine years old, they planted our roots back home in Colorado, moving our family to Highlands Ranch on the night the Avs won the Stanley Cup for the first time.

After living in Douglas County for several years, we moved to rural Colorado, just past the Elbert County line. I grew up going to church in Kiowa, on the edge of a town that didn’t have a single stoplight and watching my brothers compete in football, basketball, and track at the local high school. After graduating, I entered law school at the age of 17, working as a waitress, and beginning a lifelong pursuit of constitutional rights and equality for all people. Two years later, I sponsored Colorado’s first Personhood Amendment, traveling the state to make the case that all people are created equal and deserve the right to life under our laws.