Longmont Public Media Board of Directors
Tim Waters
Tim Waters is a former member of Longmont’s City Council, representing Ward 1. He transitioned from his role as a
City Council member to full-time volunteer in December 2023. Tim was a career educator, spending over 44 years in
the field, split between 23 years as a practitioner and 21 years running an education research and development
corporation.
Tim’s volunteer activities include membership in Longmont Rotary (and the Rotary Club Board of Directors),
the I Have a Dream Board of Directors, the Longmont Community Justice Board of Directors, Longs Peak and
Broomfield Hospital Advisory Boards, Chair of Longmont Public Media’s Board of Directors, and Co-Chair of
The Learning Center’s capital campaign. Tim is also involved with the Early Childhood Alliance dedicated to
funding childcare and early childhood education as a public good.
Jackie Juarez
Jackie and her family have been a part of the Longmont community for the last 30 years. Education, community,
culture, and access to resources are at the core of Jackie’s work. She has been an educator for the past ten
years in both public and private school systems in Colorado. Currently, she serves as the Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusive Cultural Specialist for the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business.
Lynn Eckart
In my role at the Innovation Center of St. Vrain Valley School District, I facilitate Innovation Outreach efforts, connecting and supporting partners, volunteers, clients, bridging talent needs, and collaborators to drive forward innovative initiatives.
Over the past 23 years, I’ve had the privilege of designing, developing, and managing programs in diverse settings, from non-profits and educational institutions to private sector initiatives. My career is rooted in a passion for connecting people with opportunities to expand their skills and transform empowered growth.
Tom Briggs
Tom Briggs’ experience spans commercial and investment banking in both Denver and New York City; public financial
management service in Federico Peña’s first term as Mayor of Denver; international finance for the U.S. Treasury
Department; and senior-level policy work in international development for the Millennium Challenge Corporation
and the United States Agency for International Development. He also served as Executive Director of The HELP
Commission, an independent commission created by Congress to report on America’s foreign aid programs.
Since retiring in 2013 and returning to Boulder County, Tom served as President of two nonprofit organizations,
Treasurer of three, and as a Partner in Social Venture Partners of Boulder County. Tom is a fifth-generation
Coloradan and a U.S. Navy veteran who served as a Russian linguist in special operations.
Scott Converse
Scott has been a senior corporate executive for Fortune 50 companies including Apple Computer, Motorola,
Paramount Pictures/Viacom, and MCI, and has founded several startup companies including ClickCaster, Medioh, and
ExtractCraft. Scott also co-founded The Longmont Observer, Longmont Public Media, and TinkerMill.
Sergio R. Angeles
Sergio’s background is in back-end and front-end application development for Fortune 500 companies. In 2017, he
co-founded the Longmont Observer, a local nonprofit newspaper, to help provide local information to Longmont. The
Longmont Observer became Longmont Public Media in 2020. In his free time, Sergio enjoys cooking, hiking, cycling,
playing video games, geeking out on the latest tech, and coding.
