Leadership Team

Andrea Morton is an Architect and Founder with a passion for mentoring, team building, and lifelong learning. After nearly 20 years working in a variety of architecture firms in the Boston area, she launched her own practice rooted in collaboration, community building, and training up the next generation of practitioners with an eye toward inclusion for those who have traditionally been underrepresented or less visible in leadership and decision-making roles.

While planning her move to Colorado, Andrea was tremendously proud to have mentored an employee in launching her own practice and transition to leadership.

Outside of work, Andrea enjoys bicycling, hanging out with her nephew, and being deep in the mountains.

Bijal Choksi is an organizational psychologist with 25+ years of experience as a consultant, facilitator, and Coach. She is fascinated by human and organizational behavior – and the challenges that often come up living complex, modern, human lives. Bijal is an ICF-credentialed Coach, who is passionate about helping people achieve their full potential. She holds a Master’s in Organizational Psychology from Columbia, undergraduate from Wharton, and certifications from HPI, plus StandOut Strengths, the Science of Happiness, and HeartMath. Bijal founded a non-profit to support the dreams of high-achieving high school students from low-income households, and has two teenage boys and a husband, who think she’s a crazy biohacker.

Tamara is a personal investment advisor and recently found Tsaava Asset Strategies Consultants, LLC, specializing in financial and real estate investments and consultation.

Tamara graduated  from Ilia State University in the Republic of Georgia and completed a dual graduate program in Journalism and International Conflict Resolution. She holds certificates in Financial Markets from Yale University, Economics and Money Banking from Columbia University.

Fluent in Georgian, Russian and English, Tamara studied Hungarian, French and Italian languages.

Originally from the Republic of Georgia, Tamara and her family made Denver their home 23 years ago. Her husband is a local artist creating images of Denver’s old streets and cityscapes. Their son is currently a student at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Monica Roers has been building strong and effective nonprofit organizations and governmental systems for over 25 years. A seasoned nonprofit executive, she has served as President & CEO of nonprofits focused on early childhood education, after-school and summer programming for youth, aging services, crisis counseling, women’s empowerment, racial justice, and nonprofit capacity building. She currently works for YWCA USA as National Member Services Director, coaching and supporting the CEOs of YWCAs across the US. She also re-designed complex government systems that provide public assistance to low income individuals and families. Monica earned a Master’s degree in Public and Private Management from the Yale School of Management, and has been an affiliate faculty member in Regis University’s Master in Nonprofit Management Program. She currently serves on the Governor’s Commission for Community Service. Monica has loved living in Denver for the past decade and also loves traveling … having been to all 50 states and various countries.

Lara is a Partner with La Piana Consulting, a national management consulting firm serving nonprofits and foundations. She helps nonprofits solve complex issues related to financial sustainability, partnerships, strategic direction, and culture. She has led capacity-building organizations in the social sector, including the Nonprofit Centers Network and the Impact Development Fund.

Lara has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. She started her nonprofit career in Philadelphia doing community development financing at the Reinvestment Fund.

She relocated to Denver in 1999 with her husband and raised two great humans who make her proud every day. In her spare time she enjoys cycling, hiking, skiing, and the Denver theater scene.

Heidi currently works on CBRE’s Occupancy Management Consulting team. In this role, she works with corporate clients on short-term projects to help optimize space usage and realign business adjacencies.

Heidi has an MES degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA degree from the University of Georgia. During her time at Penn, she was also a Project Manager for the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Medicine, responsible for life science lab space initiatives. She also previously worked as a commercial interior designer for 5 years at a boutique architecture and design firm; supporting projects end to end for many industries, including healthcare, corporate occupier, hospitality, and education.

Heidi moved to Colorado to live close enough to be a ‘cool aunt’ and even closer to great hiking. She also enjoys spending time with her dogs, traveling to new places, cycling, skiing, trying out new recipes, creating art, and reading historical fiction/fantasy. 

Allison Wettach is a senior engineering leader in the aerospace industry - right now, she works for Blue Origin, a new-space company founded by Jeff Bezos. She and her team in the Engineering Center of Excellence look cross-organizationally at the company and work to make Blue’s engineering processes more scalable and efficient (and profitable.) She works remotely out of Boulder, CO and spends significant amounts of time in Seattle.

Outside of work, Allison enjoys all of Boulder’s outdoor amenities, hiking and running on trails, yoga, and attempting to keep up with her husband on skis.

Tory Tripp has been working in education for the last 15 years, serving as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, researcher, policy advocate and much more. After spending a decade teaching math, Tory was given the opportunity to teach Financial Literacy and became captivated by the life-changing influence of this content. This prompted a career pivot to focus more intently on empowering others through financial knowledge. She currently serves as the Financial Literacy Specialist at the Colorado Department of Education and sits on the board of the nonprofit, Economic Literacy Colorado. Despite transitioning out of the classroom, Tory continues to leverage her expertise through her concurrent work as an instructional consultant and as an adjunct professor in the University of Denver’s teacher preparation program.

Tory has a MA in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Denver, and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. She played 4 years of soccer for Penn, and though she works out more in the gym than on the field these days, she will always identify as a soccer player. Tory is an avid traveler, a moderate reader, and an amateur furniture-builder. She is a proud 4th-Generation Oregonian, and after 12 years in Colorado is still adjusting to the inverted sun to water ratio.

Jamie Vandenberge is a Senior Relationship Manager for Bank of America in their Global Commercial Bank division. Jamie works to build and support business relationships for middle-market companies headquartered in Colorado. She recently returned to a career in finance after spending a decade focused on product development and systems integration for software companies in Boulder. When Jamie is not at work she prefers to spend her time with her three young children and husband of 12 years. She has rarely been known to turn down an invitation for a sporting event, an opportunity to travel, or a request for help.

“I am so excited to be a part of the CO Ivy+ leadership team, where I hope to help build out a strong and vibrant community of people in my new home state!”

Advisors

Kelly Dwyer is an executive coach and business consultant who works with clients to build awareness and choice. Clients improve performance, strengthen relationships, build self-confidence, and experience personal and professional satisfaction.

Kelly has extensive experience across operations, strategic projects, and program management, where she created and launched new departments, business services, and teams. Her years in startup and high-growth environments have given her skills in innovation, a visceral experience of what it means to be Agile, and the ability to formulate frameworks, strategies, and processes for new initiatives. 

She co-authored "Pivot with Purpose: The Path to Remarkable Work", is an engaging speaker, and is deeply passionate about coaching. Kelly holds an MBA in Sustainable Global Business from Cornell University and a BS in Journalism from the University of Colorado. She is a certified coach and received her training from Compassionate Leaders Circle and Erickson Coaching International.

Dare Rosebery has devoted her life to the success of others - people and organizations in the US and Europe - for more than 25 years. Galvanized by the vision of people self-developing who they are first and thus inspiring others to transform, Dare joined People Programs Group in 2015. PPG designs and leads Planning and Performance Intensives with follow-on coaching programs that get beyond learning about leadership to producing leaders who can realize success that is predictable, repeatable, consistent, and sustaining.

To nurture a better tomorrow, Dare leads pro bono Transformational Planning Intensives for non-profit organizations and helps Alumni connect and build meaningful relationships. She initiated a Proactive Connections Program as a Board Member of the Wharton Club of Colorado, is a Co-Founder/Past President/Board Advisor of Colorado Ivy+ Women, and is currently serving as a Co-Facilitator for Wharton Women’s Circles and partnering with alumni leaders to evolve a multi-club Ring of Reciprocity Program as a Board Member of the Wharton Club of Dallas/Ft. Worth. Dare graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School with a B.S. in Economics.

Ashley Kappel is a Customer Success Account Director at Qualia, a real estate tech company, where she builds and supports customer relationships with title companies and lenders. Before working at Qualia, Ashley was a real estate attorney for nearly a decade. She owned her own firm for two years after working for two top national firms. Ashley is active in the Denver metro community. She was a founding board member of Colorado Ivy+ Women and served on the board of Raise the Future, Roots Elementary School, and Wish for Wheels in the past. Before becoming an attorney, Ashley was a teacher, school leader, and nonprofit director. In her free time, Ashley loves to write, paint, hike, and ski with her family at their second home in Salida, Colorado.