Michelle P. Fulcher

Colorado Matters Radio & Digital Producer

@MPFulcher[email protected]

Michelle Fulcher is a producer for Colorado Matters. She has reported at a Denver business weekly, at the Colorado Springs Gazette and The Denver Post where she served as a state and local government reporter, an assigning editor, city editor and national/international editor.

Education:
Bachelor's degree in journalism, University of Colorado Boulder.

Professional background:
Michelle first joined Colorado Public Radio in 2007 and was part of the "Colorado Matters" team for five years. She then worked at CU-Boulder as communications director for the College of Media, Communication and Information before returning to CPR in 2016. Michelle began her reporting career at a Denver business weekly, spent five years at the Colorado Springs Gazette and later moved to The Denver Post where she served as a state and local government reporter, an assigning editor, city editor and national/international editor.

Awards:
As city editor at The Denver Post, Michelle helped lead the newspaper to a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the mass shootings at Columbine High School.

Speaker KC Becker Sees A Slower Session Since ‘Election Years Are Tougher Years’

Colorado lawmakers return to the state Capitol Wednesday but the breakneck pace at which they adopted a Democratic agenda last year may slow, according to a leading Democrat. Democrats maintain the ‘trifecta’ — control of both legislative houses and the governor’s office — that led last year to the adoption of full-day kindergarten, health care reforms and an overhaul of oil and gas regulations. But Democratic House Speaker K.C. Becker of Boulder says many of those issues had been debated, and negotiated for years. In 2020 lawmakers wil consider newer proposals and return to debates over ideas where Democrats are divided, like the death penalty and paid family leave. “We’re not trying to match last year, we just want to pass good policy’’ Becker said. Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner spoke with Becker.

What Makes This Man A ‘Hero’? Donating RVs To People Left Homeless By A Wildfire

Woody Faircloth was a thousand miles away when Paradise, California was leveled by a wildfire last year. Faircloth had never been to the small town in California and didn’t know anybody there but as he heard about the thousands of people left homeless he had an idea. At his home in Denver’s City Park, Faircloth started looking around on Craigslist for Within days he and his daughter Luna, then 6, started a GoFundMe account, bought a vehicle for $2,500, packed it up, drove it to California and donated it to a man left homeless by the fire. That was the start of a nonprofit called RV4CampfireFamily that has since donated several dozen RVs to fire victims. Now, Faircloth is one of 10 people nominated for CNN’s Hero of the Year award. The winner will be announced Sunday in a live broadcast from New York.