COLOR AF Selected to Lead Redistricting Efforts in Colorado

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) BOLD PAC, the campaign arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, recently announced a national strategy to ensure that the Latino community is central to the redistricting process being undertaken in key states and to equip communities with the resources to fight for fair and representative maps.

BOLD PAC has selected the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights Action Fund (COLOR AF) as the recipient to lead these efforts in Colorado, where we will continue to educate and train the Latinx community to participate in the state’s redistricting process. Colorado, which will get an eighth House seat in the next Congress, is using an independent redistricting commission to draw its map for the first time this year.

In an article published on August 9, Executive Director Dusti Gurule said, “This is going to impact our state and our country for years to come. If this process isn’t done the right way, if the community is not heard or engaged in this process, we are missing the boat again.”

The investment comes days before the redistricting process — delayed for months by the coronavirus pandemic — is set to start with the release of detailed population data from the 2020 census, on August 12. That data will be used to redraw district lines to reflect population changes in the last 10 years.

“This is going to impact our state and our country for years to come. If this process isn’t done the right way, if the community is not heard or engaged in this process, we are missing the boat again.”
Dusti Gurule, COLOR

To learn more about Colorado’s redistricting process and the state’s independent redistricting commission meetings, visit: https://redistricting.colorado.gov.

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