Staff & Board

Adeeb is the Executive Director of Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation. He was previously senior director of corporate social responsibility at TIAA, senior director of volunteer engagement at Mile High United Way, and regional director of health & safety and community services at American Red Cross. He holds an MBA from the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver and a BA in Communications from the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. He is currently serving on the board of the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation, Executives Partnering in Children (EPIC), the Daniels College of Business, and is a Commissioner on the Early Childhood Leadership Commission (ECLC). 

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Lori leads the grantmaking team and oversees the mission-related investment portfolio at the Foundation. Most recently, Lori was the COO at Hunger Free Colorado where she provided strategic partnership to the CEO and board of directors in areas of finance, fundraising, people strategy, and equity. She has served as a nonprofit executive director, program officer, and director of a statewide health policy project. Lori earned a BA in English and Psychology from Amherst College. She serves on the Board of Directors of The GrowHaus, a food justice organization in north Denver and is a founding member of LatinasGive!, a philanthropic giving circle. 

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Kaye leads Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation’s evaluative work as Evaluation Manager. She works with the Foundation’s staff and grantees to define their success and measurement of their goals and by advising on learning questions, data collection, and evaluation strategies. 
She has spent her career in evaluation, learning and research in nonprofits and government with a focus on health, child and family well-being. She believes that oral health is a key component of overall health and in the importance of addressing social determinants of health to enable every Coloradan to live their best life.
Kaye holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Sociology from North Dakota State University and is an active community volunteer in West Denver. Her proudest accomplishment is raising two kind, intelligent young men.

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Arden is a Place-based Program Officer focusing on increasing access to oral care in the San Luis Valley and Aurora. Prior to starting at Delta Dental, Arden worked in jobs ranging from cofounding and directing a startup organization in South-Central Colorado dedicated to health promotion among low-income children, youth, and families, to joining Peace Corps Peru as a health promoter with her husband in their 40’s. Most recently she served as a Community Partner in South-Central Colorado at The Colorado Trust, working alongside her coworkers to develop a place-based organizing strategy to build individual and collective power among people most impacted by issues to impact systems change. When not working in her remote office or on the road, Arden likes to spend time with her husband and friends in her home in Chaffee County, hiking, volunteering in her community, and instigating backyard potlucks, dinner parties, and general merrymaking.

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Mara joined the Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation in July of 2021 as Senior Program Officer, Early Childhood and Prevention. Before joining the Foundation, Mara led global employee engagement efforts for the Western Union Foundation. Prior to that role, Mara worked as a Program Officer at the Buell Foundation managing a diverse portfolio of grantees in the early childhood space. Mara sees herself as a partner to nonprofit organizations and a champion for the good work in early childhood education—including the impact of oral health on a child’s quality of life—that is being accomplished across the state. Mara holds a BA in Arts Management from the University of San Francisco, an MA in Rhetoric and Writing Studies from San Diego State University, a Certificate in Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics from CU Boulder, and she brings over 13 years of nonprofit and grant-making expertise to her role.  

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Tracy comes to the Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation to help advance oral health equity through policy and oral health coalition development with extensive experience in the fields of dentistry, public health and health policy.  
Prior to joining the Foundation, Tracy had a variety of roles involving the planning, implementing and evaluating strategic policy and health initiatives in her work as Executive Director of the Colorado Association of Local Public Health Officials, the Oral Health Program Manager for the County of San Luis Obispo CA, and the Dental Director for the State of Colorado.  
Tracy received her Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene from the University of Colorado and her Master’s of Public Health from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. She is a third-generation Coloradan. 

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