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Meet Elbra Wedgeworth
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Who do you trust when the decisions shape a city’s future?
 

For more than three decades, Hon. Elbra M. Wedgeworth has been entrusted with some of Denver’s most consequential civic responsibilities, serving across all three branches of city government and guiding institutions through moments that required credibility, continuity, and public trust.

Her leadership spans governance, healthcare, finance, and community development, with a record defined by scale, stewardship, and results.

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Leadership & Impact

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30+ years in public and civic leadership
Only individual to serve in all three branches of Denver City Government (Mayor's Office, Auditor's Office, and City Council)
City Council President Pro-Tem, unanimously elected

City Council President, unanimously elected
$75M secured for Denver Health’s Outpatient Medical Center
$500M Denver Union Station Project Authority, overseen, on time and under budget
DNC 2008 Denver Convention Host Committee Chair and President of the Board of Directors — First African American woman to chair a host committee for either political party.
First woman of color to serve on the FirstBank Holding Company Board of Trustees ($17B+ assets which is now PNC Financial Services)
The Hon. Elbra M. Wedgeworth Municipal building named in her honor by the City and County of Denver in 2014.

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Community Engagement

Foster community relationships and developing communication and outreach strategies to accommodate organizational workforce needs.

Leadership Resources

Tap into valuable connections such as City of Denver, downtown business organizations, colleges and universities, banking and community engagements. 

Diversity & Inclusion

Address challenges with recruitment and retention of a more diverse workforce.

Clients

Clients

Testimonials

"I have had the privilege of working with the Honorable Elbra

Wedgeworth for many years as both a civic leader, leadership

consultant and advisor. Few people have the breadth of

experience she does in both the public and private sector. If you

want to deepen your base in Denver and Colorado, it’s a given

that you should work with the Honorable Elbra Wedgeworth."

Donna Lynne
DrPh CEO
Denver Health

Community Engagement, Equity & Public Impact

What does trusted leadership look like across movements, institutions, and moments of crisis? 

For decades, Hon. Elbra M. Wedgeworth has been called upon by public agencies, healthcare systems, foundations, and national organizations when the work required credibility, discretion, and results, not visibility.

Her community engagement and equity work reflects long-term institutional trust, spanning public health, education, civic infrastructure, political leadership, and national policy conversations.

 

At-a-Glance Scope of Engagement

  • 30+ years advising, convening, and leading across equity and community initiatives

  • Federal, state, and city agencies served

  • Impact across Public health, education, infrastructure, and policy impact

  • Roles including Advisor, consultant, moderator, panelist, and board leader

  • Repeated re-engagement by institutions across multiple years

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