Lance Johnson is the Parks, Golf and Open Space Manager for the City of Westminster where is has worked for 29 years. He is a Certified Golf Course Superintendent and oversees the City’s two premiere golf courses, Walnut Creek Golf Preserve and Legacy Ridge Golf Course, the City’s 63 parks and multiple amenities, 3,700 acres of open space, and 120 miles of trails . He grew up in Fairfield, Iowa and attended Arizona State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management.

Prior to working in golf course maintenance, Lance umpired professional baseball in the minor leagues for three years. Lance is a member of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA), Rocky Mountain Golf Course Superintendents Association (RMGCSA) and the National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA). He is past President of both the Rocky Mountain Golf Course Superintendents Association and the RMGCSA non-profit organization, Rocky Mountain Environmental Golf Institute. Lance also chaired the state-wide committee that created the Colorado Golf Industry Best Management Practices Guide for Golf Courses that was published in 2019.

Lance serves on the Board of ALL IN Fostering Futures (AIFF). He helped plan, implement, and participated in the first two inaugural AIFF retreats, a Co-Ed retreat held in Lakewood, CO in August of 2021 and the recent Men’s Retreat held at Spring Valley Ranch in Eucha, OK in May of 2022.

Alex Oleson is passionate about policy, positively changing families, and building strong communities.

Alex spent two and a half years in the foster care system before being adopted by the Oleson’s in Lenexa, Kansas as the sixth of seven former foster youth adopted by them. He also grew up in their home with thirty other foster youth, many of whom were adopted or reunified with their biological parents.

Because of Alex’s positive adoption experience, he is a proponent of supporting strong and stable adoptions. He acknowledges and works to improve the issues of dissolved adoptions, racial and age inequalities in the foster care system, and the need for more male mentors for former and current foster youth.

In 2019, Alex was an intern with US Senator Roy Blunt in Washington, DC. He worked as a foster youth intern through the Congressional Coalition and Adoption Institute. Alex has been a spokesperson for Adopt US Kids, a member of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), on the Support, Opportunity, Unity, and Legal (SOUL) team in Kansas, and currently serves as a board member for ALL IN Fostering Futures, Inc. (AIFF).

Alex is an assistant program officer of economic development at the Local Initiative Support Corporation. He hosts the podcast Spokesfolks and has a bachelor’s degree in political science from St. Louis University. He is a candidate for the Master of Public Administration (MPA) at the University of Texas in Arlington.

Brad Weber is a partner in the law firm Locke Lord LLP and the co-chair of the firm’s Antitrust Practice Group, working in both the Dallas and Washington, DC offices. He also is a past chair of the Antitrust & Business Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas, a former director on the board of the state bar of Texas, and a past president of the Dallas Bar Association. During his thirty-five-year legal career, Brad has developed a full-service antitrust practice emphasizing litigation, government investigations, and antitrust compliance.

In addition to his service on the board of ALL IN Fostering Futures, Inc. Brad is the current chair of the Dallas Bar Foundation, which awards law school scholarships to minority students in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and he serves on the board of the Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation, which awards college scholarships to high-achieving students from low-income families in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.

Though originally from Georgia, Ashley spent most of her childhood living in Colorado. She
graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in Human Development and Family Studies with an emphasis in Early Childhood Education. Since graduating, Ashley has lived all over the USA, spending time in California, New Hampshire, Washington, and most recently Minnesota. She moved back to Colorado in 2023 with her husband and two children.

Ashley is the Director of Preschool at Cherry Hills Christian School and has always had a passion for education and children ministry programs. Outside of work, Ashley loves spending quality time with her family, whether cheering on her kids in their activities, playing games, or snuggling them for a movie night. She also enjoys spending time in nature, with her favorite activities being hiking, paddleboarding, boating, gardening, and enjoying a sunset.

Carrie Lloyd is the host of “The Carrie On…Podcast,” a journalist, Patreon writer, and life guide, specializing in authenticity and character. She is the author of three books: The Noble Renaissance (Harper Collins), The Virgin Monologue, and Prude. Carrie resides between her homes in California, where she is a foster mother, and Lincolnshire, England.

I have a deep desire to impact my community and make a long-lasting positive change within my family and my community! If I feel there is a need or an opportunity to take action, I am most likely to be on the front lines making something happen! I wear and have had many different hats over the last several years. Most recently, I joined the efforts of a few other moms who saw a need to have a different option to educate our children, so we started a school. We currently have 180 kids ranging from ages 3-6th grade (we will open a 7th grade next year). Last year, I took the lead in creating a school-wide outreach initiative. At the heart of our school is to be the hands and feet of Jesus and give our students tangible ways to impact our backyard. We have been called to the world of foster care. We created a wrap-around team with parents at our school and serve foster care families, we volunteer regularly at a few different non-profits that directly affect children/teens in foster care, and we host regular service projects at the school with the students.

My trained profession is as an ultrasound Sonographer and I have been doing that for the last 15 years. I came home to stay with my 3 small children after my 3rd was born. This was the greatest gift ever given to me. Now that they are all in school, I have been able to pursue a few more ambitions where I am being called and led. I am the fundraising coordinator for a local non-profit that serves families that experience infant and pregnancy loss. I am also involved in local, grassroots politics. I ran for State House Representative in 2022 where I learned a lot about myself, my community's needs, and the need to stay involved and informed is necessary. I am now the house district Vice- chair for my area where we engage people to affect change and we are working on developing a women’s group in politics here in Jefferson County.

Through all of these many hats, my heart bleeds for making positive, big changes that better one’s life. There is so much work to do to better this world and if I can be a beacon of hope through hard work and ideas then I am using my gifts and affecting my community.

As president of AIEF, Lynn A. Johnson drives the mission, fundraising, operations, and engagement with the board of directors and volunteers. Her focus for AIEF is to bring the nonprofit to a national initiative that empowers communities, nonprofit agencies, faith-based organizations, government, and businesses to combat the crisis of children aging out of the foster care system, adoption, poverty, and human trafficking. Her determination, passion, and strong belief in the dignity of all people are paired with her deep faith in Jesus Christ to bring value and dignity to all people no matter their challenges.

Exuding to her solid and compassionate leadership style, Lynn has held many positions in human services and, most recently, served as the assistant secretary for the Administration for Children and Families in the US Department of Health and Human Services in a Senate-confirmed appointment. She led an agency with a $60 billion budget and over sixty programs designed to improve the lives of the most vulnerable children, individuals, and families.

Under this appointment, she created the ALL IN for Foster Care and Adoption Challenge — a national call for partners in every state, including governors, agencies, courts, churches, community organizations, foster alumni, and the public, to commit to being ALL IN for finding “forever families” for the 122,000 children per year awaiting homes. These children are at imminent risk of ending up in other systems like juvenile justice, homelessness, or human trafficking. Lynn believes that these are “America’s children.” With a combined strategy of primary prevention on the front-end, when families need intervention and wrapping around those who step up to adopt youth waiting for homes, the 122,000 children would be rapidly reduced. Lynn knows we all have a role to play and is making connections for success for vulnerable families and children.

As the executive director of Jefferson County, Colorado, Department of Human Services, she provided dignity and respect for our most vulnerable community members to end poverty, eliminate abuse and neglect, and stop the trafficking of children. Lynn served as chief of staff for former Colorado Lieutenant Governor Jane E. Norton. She was also deputy director for policy and human services policy advisor for former Colorado Governor Bill Owens. With her expertise in child welfare, welfare reform, and criminal justice, she has been appointed to numerous committees and won multiple awards for excellence in human services transformations and customer service.

Lynn has been married for thirty-nine years. She has three adult children, two beautiful daughters-in-law, an amazing one-year-old granddaughter, and numerous chosen foster alumni young adult children.