Catherine Kearney Marinelli

Catherine Marinelli is the Managing Principal at Civic Results, a Colorado based 501(c)(3) non-profit, where she also serves as the Executive Director of the Metro Mayors Caucus. The Caucus is a voluntary, regional association of 38 mayors from throughout the 7-county Denver Metropolitan area. Collectively, Caucus member cities comprise a region that is home to fifty-six percent of Colorado's population.

Contributions

Since 1996, Catherine has worked with the Caucus to identify critical policy issues and build the consensus necessary to implement statewide, regional and local policy solutions. She has worked within the region and with partners across the state to develop understanding of the need for a new, sustainable and mode-flexible revenue source for state, regional and local mobility investments. Catherine has facilitated multi-jurisdictional regional compacts on energy efficiency, water conservation, health and wellness, and growth. She also helped to establish the Caucus' multi-year, multi-jurisdictional mortgage bond program for first-time home buyers and Housing Stability Flex Fund at the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative to assist those at-risk of homelessness or experiencing homelessness secure stable housing. 

Education & Personal Life

Catherine earned a Master of Public Administration from the University of Colorado at Denver and a B.A. in Political Science, cum laude, from Colorado State University. She was a 2010 recipient of a Gates Foundation Fellowship for the State and Local Government Executive Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Catherine and her husband Bill live in Denver's Central Park neighborhood and are the proud parents of two awesome teenagers and a menagerie of small animals.