Shannon Galpin

Third TEDx Mile High ticket deadline is today

The final ticket deadline for TEDx Mile High is today. This is the third annual Denver-centric version of TED, which has been touting "Ideas Worth Spreading" since the non-profit organization started bringing the best and brightest minds of the world together back in 1984. See also: - Obama's 2012 ... More >>

Video: Learn more about Shannon Galpin and Mountain2Mountain in new documentary

Our recent cover feature, "Peak Performance," tells the story of local humanitarian Shannon Galpin, who in 2006 founded Mountain2Mountain, an international outreach effort targeted toward working with women in crisis zones. That year, the rape survivor and single mother left her job as a Pilates ins ... More >>

From Colorado to Kabul and back, Shannon Galpin's wild ride

Mountain2Mountain: Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea provided motivation, not money

This week's cover story, "Peak Performance," describes how the pull of past history and the power of publishing inspired Shannon Galpin to create Mountain2Mountain, an international nonprofit dedicated to educating women in conflict zones. Although Galpin was influenced most strongly by the fact tha ... More >>

MoveShake: Shannon Galpin documentary premieres online tonight

Tonight at 7 p.m., filmmakers Allie Bombach and Sarah Menzies will show the first two films in their MoveShake series online at www.MoveShake.org.The MoveShake films profile people pushing for environmental and social change; Breckenridge-based Shannon Galpin, who founded Mountain2Mountain, an organ ... More >>

Mountain2Mountain's Combat Apathy links U.S. and international conflict zones

In the nearly six years since Shannon Galpin founded Mountain2Mountain, the Colorado-based nonprofit has created several projects in Afghanistan: Volunteers taught street art, worked with women's prisons, partnered on a school for the deaf. But in 2012, Combat Apathy, its new educational program, wi ... More >>

Video: Watch all seven presentations from this year's TEDx Mile High Salon online

In January, the Denver branch of the national TED think tank staged its first-ever salon (and second-ever event). The evening's three hours of discussions and performances featured seven area personalities sharing their Ideas Worth Spreading -- with a couple even marking return performances with pro ... More >>

TEDx Mile High recreates the eighteenth century salon tonight

Every TEDx event is many things, and all of them are happening at once. A cross between a theater and a lecture hall, the discussion series follows a creative combination of performance and insight, becoming a circus for the mind. And tonight, local chapter TEDx Mile High will reinvision an abridged ... More >>

Street Smarts

Today in Stoke: Shannon Galpin brings Mountain2Mountain Afghanistan project to REI

​When Breckenridge-based mountain biker Shannon Galpin talks about her recent adventures tonight at REI, 1416 Platte Street, know that her definition of "mountain biking" is a little bit bigger than some. Take her recent trip through Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley, for example: Galpin's non-pro ... More >>