People

: Anton Martinus Jensen

: Antonio Clark; He was born in Denver, Colorado and grew up in low income housing. His mother worked as a housekeeper to support the family. His father was a gang member who spent time in prison. During his childhood, his mom signed him up for Denver Kids, where he was mentored by Steve Atkinson, the sports director for CBS Channel 4 news. As a child he gravitated to all sorts of youth sports and played baseball, basketball, football, and soccer. His greatest loves were basketball and football. He did well academically in grade school and scored high in both the classroom and on assessment tests. At Thomas Jefferson High School, he lost interest in academics, but continued to show promise on his achievement tests. While at Thomas Jefferson, he played basketball and football all four years. After a good junior season in football, he was recruited by Colorado State University, the University of Colorado and the University of Northern Colorado. After his senior year, he received a football scholarship offer from UNC, but elected instead to walk-on at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction. He was recruited as a wide receiver but played cornerback at CMU. Antonio was the first person in his immediate family to go to college, and he has been an inspiration to some younger family members who have since followed suit. He describes his first years in college as wild, and states that he got into trouble. During his freshman year, he was arrested for an incident stemming from a fight he got into on campus, in which a white student was yelling racial slurs, and spent two weeks in the county jail. He came back to school with a greater maturity. He contributed to the Mavericks’ playoff run and was also selected as an NCAA II All-American. He graduated in 2019. After the death of George Floyd in 2020, he co-founded the group Right and Wrong with his former teammate and friend Jay Freeman. The group organized marches and protests in calling for greater attention to police brutality against African-Americans, and for more attention to be paid to the needs of African-Americans in the community. He currently works for KREX TV and hopes to work soon as a sports journalist in the Denver area. He also would like to continue his community organizing in Denver’s African-American community.

: Antonio Valdez; Contributor to "2020: The Hammer and The Dance: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source:2020: The Hammer and The Dance : A Gunnison Valley Journal).

: April Nottingham

: Araminta Midkiff; Contributor to "The where that tells us who we are: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: The where that tells us who we are: A Gunnison Valley Journal)