Join Hilltop at Grand Junciton Pride!
Hilltop is a proud sponsor of Colorado West Pride’s 2025 Celebrations! As part of our commitment to inclusivity and our mission to create connection and belonging, we’re excited to join this vibrant celebration of love, identity, and community.
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Be a part of the celebration! Staff our Hilltop booth at the two-day festival and help us spread connection, inclusivity, and belonging throughout our community. You’ll be paid for your time—just get the okay from your supervisor first! Click here for more information and to view the sign up sheet.
Hilltop Inclusivity +
One of Hilltop’s values is Inclusivity: respecting individual differences, ensuring equal opportunities, and condemning prejudicial actions. Many cultures, heritages and diverse groups are represented within Hilltop and the community we serve. We strive to recognize, celebrate, and educate on the importance of our full spectrum of diversity.
Real progress on diversity and inclusion doesn’t happen without real work. We need to learn and relearn, have uncomfortable conversations, and examine our conscious and unconscious biases if we’re going to produce genuine change. Explore the content below to learn new concepts, understand the experiences of others, and reflect on how to turn these ideas into action.
Leave a comment to share your own story or idea – let your voice be heard! Contact Monica Garcia, Inclusivity Business Partner – with questions, thoughts, concerns, or if you are looking for ideas for personal growth or team development. monicag@htop.org | 970.244.0414
Here’s another book for the Asian American perspective on being Asian in America: Farewell To Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. It is an autobiographical account of her experiences during her time in an American WWII Japanese internment camp. I read this book while in Middle school and found it to be a poignant and thoughtful accounting of what it meant to be Asian in America during that time.
Looking forward to Pride activities. I haven’t participated for several years. We have come a long way since the 60’s!
Go women’s soccer!!
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/22/1082272202/women-soccer-contracts-equal-pay-settlement-uswnt
Hi there Hilltoppers! For those of you living in the Delta, Montrose, Ridgeway, and Ouray communities…I just wanted to update you that a Pride event is taking place on July 25th from 4:00 to 8:00 at Hartwell Park in Ridgeway! It’s the first annual Ouray County pride fest!
I love this! Thank you for getting this going! There is not enough conversation about diversity and inclusivity (especially in many smaller towns) and I am so proud to work for an organization so willing to address that ❤
Trying the link to the Ted Talk “Difference between being “not racist” and “anti-racist” again….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCxbl5QgFZw
Hi again! Just wanted to share some more resources for everyone to take a deeper dive into Black History month, current topics that affect Black Americans in the United States, and how to be an ally to the Black community. Several of these resources have been read, watched, and discussed by Hilltop leadership and we thought it was fitting to share these resources and learning opportunities with you!
Black Americans making history in 2021 – https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/gma-inspiration-list-making-black-history-2021/story?id=75228763
White Fragility Ted Talk – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ey4jgoxeU
White Fragility Book (Robin DiAngelo) – http://www.beacon.org/White-Fragility-P1631.aspx
Understanding Anti-racism Ted Talk – Difference between being “not racist” and “anti-racist” -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCxbl5QgFZw
How To Be An Anti-Racist Book (Ibram X. Kendi) – https://www.ibramxkendi.com/how-to-be-an-antiracist
13th Documentary (Ava Duvernay) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8
Just Mercy Official Movie Trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQbeG5yW78
Just Mercy Book (Bryan Stevenson) – https://justmercy.eji.org/
Want to access these books and videos for free? Mesa County Public Library has all these and more! I’ve included their instruction page for getting a library card and using their on-line system to check-out books, videos, and so much more! Did you know that there’s also a free app you can load on your phone to access books and audio books for free through the library? It’s called the Libby App and I’ve included a link for you to learn more about it and load it on your phone, computer/laptop, tablet, etc. Enjoy!!
Library card & online book/video rental information – https://mesacountylibraries.org/services/library-cards/
Libby App (Free book & audio book library rentals) – https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby/
Hollie and Dylan, thank you for creating this site. I enjoyed watching the Local Profile Spotlight featuring, Mona Highline.
I love this so much! Thank you for all of your work, Hollie and Dylan.
Hi all! It was brought to my attention that the link above to the PBS documentary series on the Reconstruction requires a monthly subscription to PBS passport. Here is the free option through YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97JqxwjTuf8 Part 1&2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsi9uJy5azE Part 3&4
Love, Love, Love EVERYTHING about this page! So proud of Hilltop and Hollie for making this initiative a priority!
I love this new page!