Rachel Zenzinger has served the community in a variety of capacities, most recently in 2014 as Colorado State Senator representing District 19. She was elected twice as member of the Arvada City Council, where she also filled the role as Mayor Pro Tem. She has served on the Jeffco Transportation Action Advisory Group, APEX Coordinating Committee, Gold Line Advisory Committee, Arvada Transportation
Committee, and Metro Vision Issues Committee of the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG); and she was on the Executive Committee of DRCOG. She earned her graduate degree at Regis University with a Master of Arts in Adult Learning, Training & Development; and her Bachelor’s in Liberal Arts at Regis with an emphasis in education. John Hickenlooper signed into law, addressing issues of education, elders and the economy. She was named by the Arvada Chamber of Commerce as one of that organization’s Young Professionals of the Year in 2011; and in 2012, she was named by the Denver Post as one of Colorado’s Up-and-Coming Most Influential Women. Later in 2012, the Northwest Business and Professional Women named her their Woman of the Year. She accepted a position in early 2015 as state manager for Colorado Educator Voice Fellowship, a branch of America Achieves based in N.Y. Previously she worked for Regis University as program coordinator for the Master of Arts in Education, and she worked four years for Catholic Charities in fundraising. She was born and raised in Western Colorado, and she has lived in Arvada since 2002.
