Four Boulder County leaders have joined the Board of Trustees of Community Foundation Boulder County. The new additions are tax attorney J.M. Scott Beard, Jr., J.D. LLM; higher education administrator Fernando R. Guzman III, PH.D.; business coach Carey Mason; and retired philanthropic foundation executive Julie Rogers. The new Trustees are committed to sharing their diverse expertise and capabilities to strengthen the work of the foundation as a community catalyst across Boulder County.
Additionally, the Foundation approved two new officers. Sue Anderson remains the Board’s Chair. Brad Armstrong is the Board’s new Vice Chair. Jeremy Wilson continues as Treasurer; and Jim Williams joins the executive committee as Secretary.
All told, CFBC’s 21-member Board of Trustees includes (in alphabetical order): Leslie Allen, Sue Anderson, Brad Armstrong, Kimberly Barr, Scott Beard, Joshua Forman, Elliot Forsyth, Stanley (Stan) Garnett, Fernando Guzman, Tatiana Hernandez (CEO), Cindy Lindsay, Carey Mason, Emily Mears, Alexis Miles, Justin Perkins, Julie Rogers, Kimberly Barr, Christina Pacheco Sims, Katie Volkmar, Jim Williams, and Jeremy Wilson. For more information about individual board members and the work of Community Foundation Boulder County, please visit commfound.org.
About the new Trustees:
J.M. Scott Beard, JR., J.D., LLM
Tax attorney
Scott Beard is a tax attorney with over thirty years of experience in trust and estate planning/administration, closely held business, business succession, and charitable giving legal services. Scott obtained his LLM in Taxation from New York University School of Law and earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Alabama. He is an alumnus of the CFBC Leadership Fellows Program, a “nerdy consumer” of the Community Foundation’s TRENDS data, and a supporter of the Open Door Fund. Scott currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Boulder County LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce and the Community Advisory Board of the Downtown Boulder Foundation. Scott’s full name is Jack Mason Beard, Jr. His grandfather nicknamed him “Scotty” when he was just a few weeks old and it stuck! Scott currently lives in Boulder, Colorado where he gardens, hikes, volunteers, and enjoys life with his husband.
Fernando R. Guzman III, PH.D.
Higher education administrator
Fernando Guzman is Chicano/Yaqui Indian and a first‐generation college graduate. He has a doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Denver, a master’s degree in Counseling from California State University, Sacramento, and has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Santa Clara University. Currently, he is the Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusive Excellence at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder, Colorado. For over three years, he was the Director of Faculty and Staff Recruitment and Retention at The University of Rhode Island. He has been a Diversity Consultant for Champlain College; he was the Executive Director of Multicultural Engineering Program at the Colorado School of Mines. For eight years, he was the Assistant Provost for Multicultural Faculty Recruitment and Retention at the University of Denver. For six years, he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the University of Denver. And for ten years, he worked in community mental health. Fernando has a long history of creating extremely creative and groundbreaking strategies to recruit faculty and staff members from historically marginalized groups.
Carey Mason
Owner/CEO, The Alternative Board – Northern Colorado
Carey Mason is the Owner/CEO for The Alternative Board – Northern Colorado and provides individualized business coaching to CEOs and business owners. Prior to building his coaching business, Carey amassed more than 30 years of experience in Human Capital Management, working for ADP in various senior executive roles in the U.S. and Australia. In addition to his coaching services, Carey offers business consulting services focused upon employee engagement, sales process/management, strategic planning, diversity, equity and inclusion training. Carey earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Kentucky, Masters in Comparative Literature from Ohio State University, and a Diversity Management Certificate from Cornell University. He is an active volunteer with several charitable organizations, including Cultivate, which assists seniors to live independently in their homes and Salute Colorado, which supports U.S. veterans achieve their career objectives. He also currently serves on the boards of Out Boulder County and Fertile Ground. Carey and his wife, Amy, reside in North Boulder.
Julie Rogers
Retired philanthropic foundation executive
Julie Rogers has dedicated her life to philanthropy. For nearly 30 years, she served as the president and CEO of The Meyer Foundation, which supports organizations and projects that empower communities to achieve a racially and economically just Greater Washington, D.C. area. Since retiring and moving to Colorado in 2014, she has continued to share her philanthropic and civic‐engagement expertise through her consulting services and volunteer activities. Julie recently served on the boards of Colorado Chautauqua and Emergency Family Assistance Association. She and her husband, Lenny, are CFBC donor advised fund holders and members of the CFBC Legacy Society.
