Mike Roque is the executive director of the Community Foundation of the San Luis Valley and has worked over the past thirty years in the nonprofit and government sectors. He was executive director of the Chinook Fund, executive director of the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training, and founding director of the Denver Office of Strategic Partnerships. He has taught in the Concordia University (Montreal) Nonprofit Management and the Regis University (Denver) Masters in Nonprofit Management programs. He was a 2018-2020 BALLE [Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, now Common Future] Fellow.