We bring together community, corporate and government resources to support park improvement projects. The Alliance develops and supports community programs in the park to serve neighborhoods surrounding the park and visitors from other parts of Denver and the region.

The City Park Alliance Board

Rosalyn (Roz) Wheeler-Bell

A native Denverite and thirty-year resident of Park Hill. Active in Greater Park Hill Community, Inc. for a number of years. Raised two sons in Park Hill and a frequent user of City Park, the Denver Zoo, and the Museum. As chair of City Park Alliance, having been a board member for approximately two years, has served on the Fundraising, Executive, and Communications Committees. Currently a nurse case manager at Presbyterian/St Luke Medical Center, continues to be active in a number of activities, including a member of the March of Dimes Program Committee, Chair-Elect of GPHC, an active member of Park Hill United Methodist Church. With grandchildren recently moving into the Mayfair Community, looking forward to appreciating the wonderful opportunities in our community, most especially the ones in the City Park complex.

Carolyn Lievers

Carolyn is currently an ex Officio member of the executive committee (past president) and has served on the Alliance since its inception. She holds a J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law. She worked for the Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Denver and for the Legal Services Corporation in Washington, D.C. She currently is a Colorado First Assistant Attorney General representing the Colorado Department of Revenue. She is the membership chair and past president of the Colorado Potters Guild. She lives in City Park West and is participant in a community garden.

Allegra "Happy" Haynes

Happy is a native Denverite and has always lived within a half mile or so of City Park. Her career in city government has included working for former Councilman Bill Roberts and both Mayors Peña and Hickenlooper as well as serving for 13 years as a City Councilwoman for District 11. She has served on numerous boards that focus on children's issues, education and the environment. She currently lives in Park Hill and works for the Superintendent of Denver Public Schools on community partnerships. Happy is a founding board member of the City Park Alliance.

Helen Kuykendall

Helen Kuykendall is an ex officio member of the Board. Employed by Denver Parks and Recreation as the City Park Administrator, responsible for the coordination of park administration, planning, design and construction with park operations to ensure the park is managed consistent with departmental goals and priorities and the City Park Master Plan objectives. Ms. Kuykendall also serves as the primary point of contact for other parks department divisions, organizations, government agencies and the public. Previously, she was a Landscape Architect for Denver Parks and Recreation from 1999 to 2006. Her previous work has included leading projects for the Civic Center Historic Landscape Assessment and Master Plan (2005), Historic Assessment for Parkways (2003), Historic Landscape Assessment for City Park (2001), and managing the DeBoer Waterway and Box Canyon Rehabilitation Project in City Park (1999).

Dennis D. Smith

Vice President for Zoo Operations, Denver Zoological Foundation. Responsible for facilities maintenance, horticulture, grounds maintenance, admissions, parking and security, Acts as liaison for contracted food service, merchandising and ride concessions, as well as the office and public areas custodial program. Lived in Denver off and on since 1970 including teenage years in Park Hill. Currently a resident of the Whittier neighborhood.

Patty Cordova

Patty lived across from City Park Golf Course for 25 years, and coached soccer in City Park for 10 years. Her favorite view of the city is looking west from the Museum of Nature and Science…the location of The Cordova Rock Garden. The Pinnacle at City Park South will be her new home, where the Pavilion and Ferrill Lake are the “jewels” of her view. She looks forward to playing a part in maintaining the history and character of City Park while supporting plans for the future.

Kate Johnson

Kate Johnson has lived in City Park West since 1985 and revels in regular walks around Ferril Lake with her neighbors. She enjoys telling tales related to the history of the park and uses her extensive collection of historic photographs, postcards, and other City Park ephemera to bring the stories alive. She is an active community volunteer who supports Colorado Preservation Inc., the Garden Conservancy, the Colorado Center for the Book, and the City Park West Neighborhood Association. She is a co-founder of the Denver Paper and Postcard Show and the Swedish Genealogical Society of Colorado.

Karen Gerwitz

Karen Gerwitz joined the Alliance Board in January 2008, after moving to North City Park in 2006. She brings 20 years communications experience from the public, private and non-profit sectors to the Alliance. Karen has spent much of her career in state government, where she currently serves as director of communications at the Department of Regulatory Agencies. Karen volunteers for a number of civic engagement organizations, including the North City Park Civic Association. Her favorite aspect of the City Park neighborhood is its incredible diversity. In her spare time, you may see her walking with her husband, Elie Mardiros, and her oversized Boston Terrier, Winston.

Annie Levinsky

Annie joined the City Park Alliance board in 2007, and as a Denver native and East High School graduate she has many memories of time spent in City Park. Annie currently works at the Molly Brown House Museum and has experience in historical interpretation and education, fundraising and communications. Annie and her husband moved to the City Park area in 2006.

Paul Davis

City Park South Resident who serves on the Communications Committee. He is an avid runner/skier and is a former software sales executive who has recently started a website for apartment communities. He has been on the board for just under a year and looks forward to improving City Park and is very excited about the prospects of developing a running path through the Park.

William Bowman

Joined the alliance board in 2005. William moved to his home on 17th Avenue in 2000 and was instantly enamored by the park's history and beauty. William served as the President of the South City Park Neighborhood Association from 2002 through 2005. As a member of the City Park Alliance board, William is honored to be a part of the preservation and promotion of his city's finest park. He serves on the Communication Committee. As a Colorado native, William has always been enchanted in the way Denver has progressed and has always been mesmerized by our incredible skyline in front of its mountain backdrop. As a mortgage lender, William is active in the real estate community. He focuses in central Denver and has a keen interest in urban infill projects. In his spare time, William can be found working in his garden, puttering around town on his bicycle and working on his 1907 home.

Alice Kelly

Alice Kelly has been a Park Hill resident for 37 years and is an active community volunteer. She was one of the founding board members of the City Park Alliance in 1999. She has held the positions of ViceChair and Chair of the Alliance and has served on the Communications Committee and the Finance Committee. She enjoys working with others who love City Park and wants to make it the best that it can be.

Bridget Fisher

Chair of the Board of Parks People and a long time parks activist

Susan Klann

Susan Klann has been a resident of Park Hill since 1983. She moved to Denver after graduate school and worked as an editor and writer on health care, energy, women’s and general interest publications. She serves on the communications committee of the Alliance and is also on the board of City Park Jazz, Inc. Previously, she was a board member of DPS parent organizations. She is married and has two children who graduated from George Washington High School. A native of Pennsylvania, she graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in English and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. She greatly values City Park's historic and cultural role in the community.

Annie Robb Levinsky

Anne Robb Levinsky brings many strengths as a member to the board. Anne is currently the Assistant Director to the Molly Brown House Museum. At the Molly Brown Museum she developed preservation education programs and coordinated projects for school groups with the History Channel’s Save Our History program. Anne attended Colorado College where she received a Bachelor of Arts, History and graduated Summa Cum Laude in May of 2002 and is a Phi Beta Kappa. Anne and her husband live in the City Park West Neighborhood.

Lori Pidick

Lori Pidick is the Director of Membership at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. She grew up here in Denver and is a graduate of Manual High School. She graduated from Brown University with a BA in Economics and International Relations, and has an MBA from Georgetown University. She is married and has 2 children and loves living in Park Hill.

Kristin Rucker

Kristin Kay Rucker lives in the Whittier neighborhood and is currently Deputy Director of the National Cancer Prevention Fund. Kristin is also the owner of K. Rucker Photography and a bookkeeper for USA Signs International, LLC, and Trans Global Trading, LLC.

Kim Bailey

Ex-officio member of the Alliance Board.