Community Voices Across Colorado
Our Purpose
We believe civic engagement isn’t only about voting or policy; it’s about learning to understand one another and working toward shared solutions for the places we call home.
How It Works
Each Above the Noise event combines content and conversation:
- Screenings & Storytelling: Local and national public-media programs—documentaries, short features, and digital stories—serve as starting points for dialogue.
- Facilitated Conversations: Trained moderators and community ambassadors guide respectful, small-group discussions that invite multiple perspectives.
- Local Focus: Topics are chosen through listening sessions and community partnerships, ensuring every event reflects local realities, not just statewide headlines.
- Action & Reflection: Gathered insights are shared with participants, partners, and local newsrooms to keep the dialogue alive and inform future coverage and collaboration.
Why It Matters
- Rebuilding Trust: By connecting Coloradans face-to-face, Above the Noise helps restore confidence in local institutions and in one another.
- Centering Humanity: Participants practice listening across political, cultural, and generational divides.
- Strengthening Democracy: Dialogue becomes a form of civic participation—deepening understanding of local issues and shared responsibility.
- Reflecting Colorado: Events are intentionally designed to include rural, multilingual, youth, and historically excluded communities.
Connecting Voices Across Colorado
Ambassador64 is a statewide movement to connect with every county in Colorado—because everyone deserves to feel seen, heard, and valued through public media that truly reflects the people.
Led by Rocky Mountain Public Media, this initiative brings together individuals and organizations who are already trusted connectors in their communities. Ambassadors help build strong, two-way relationships between local residents, their newsrooms, and RMPM.
Each Ambassador carries something powerful—the voice of their community. By sharing local stories, insights, and everyday experiences, Ambassadors help ensure that Colorado’s public media truly represents the realities and hopes of the people who live here. Their voices make the invisible visible, the local universal, and the personal part of the public record.
Together, we’re co-creating a Colorado where the media isn’t something that happens to communities, but with them.
What Does an Ambassador Do?
If you’re someone who knows your community well and wants to help it thrive, this might be for you. As an Ambassador, you will:
Share What You Hear
Amplify the voices of your neighbors by bringing their stories, questions, and perspectives to local newsrooms and RMPM—and by bringing updates and new information back home.
Support Local Conversations
Help plan or host community listening sessions where people can talk about what matters most to them—and feel heard in the process.
Stay Connected
Join statewide gatherings each year— virtually on our private video platform and one in-person—to connect with other Ambassadors and share what’s working across regions.
Every Ambassador serves as both a listener and a messenger, helping bridge community wisdom with public storytelling.
What Does an Ambassador Do?
If you’re someone who knows your community well and wants to help it thrive, this might be for you. Every Ambassador serves as both a listener and a messenger, helping bridge community wisdom with public storytelling.
As an Ambassador, you will:
Share What You Hear
Amplify the voices of your neighbors by bringing their stories, questions, and perspectives to local newsrooms and RMPM—and by bringing updates and new information back home.
Support Local Conversations
Help plan or host community listening sessions where people can talk about what matters most to them—and feel heard in the process.
Stay Connected
Join statewide gatherings each year— virtually on our private video platform and one in-person—to connect with other Ambassadors and share what’s working across regions.
Share What You Hear
Amplify the voices of your neighbors by bringing their stories, questions, and perspectives to local newsrooms and RMPM—and by bringing updates and new information back home.
Support Local Conversations
Help plan or host community listening sessions where people can talk about what matters most to them—and feel heard in the process.
Stay Connected
Join statewide gatherings each year— virtually on our private video platform and one in-person—to connect with other Ambassadors and share what’s working across regions.
Every Ambassador serves as both a listener and a messenger, helping bridge community wisdom with public storytelling.
Our Purpose
We believe civic engagement isn’t only about voting or policy; it’s about learning to understand one another and working toward shared solutions for the places we call home.
Who Can Be an Ambassador?
We’re looking for trusted community connectors—individuals or local groups—who:
- Live or work in any of Colorado’s 64 counties
- Are deeply connected to their communities and care about local voices being heard
- Want to help strengthen storytelling and local news that reflects real life
You don’t need to be a media expert—just someone who cares about your neighbors and wants to help connect people to trustworthy, meaningful information.
Whether you’re a teacher, artist, organizer, librarian, student, or elder—your voice can help shape how Colorado sees itself.
Why It Matters
When we listen to each other, we build trust.
When we share stories, we build understanding.
And when local news reflects real people and places, we build stronger, more connected communities.
Ambassador64 gives Coloradans the power to make that happen. Every Ambassador is a trusted voice for their community—a listener, bridge-builder, and advocate who helps ensure their neighbors’ experiences and insights are represented in the stories that reach the public.
By sharing what they hear, Ambassadors bring local realities into the statewide conversation, helping RMPM and partner newsrooms understand what truly matters to the people who call Colorado home. They help close the gap between lived experience and public narrative—turning community wisdom into collective understanding.
Together, Ambassadors are transforming how public media listens and responds. They remind us that storytelling is not just about what’s reported, but who is reflected—and that every voice, in every county, has the power to shape Colorado’s story.
What's Next
In 2025–2026, Above the Noise 2.0 will expand statewide through regional gatherings co-created with local partners.
Each event will be a chance to explore how media and storytelling can spark empathy, elevate underheard voices, and inspire civic action.
Stay tuned for upcoming event announcements, highlights from past dialogues, and ways to host an Above the Noise conversation in your community.
Who Can Be an Ambassador?
We’re looking for trusted community connectors—individuals or local groups—who:
- Live or work in any of Colorado’s 64 counties
- Are deeply connected to their communities and care about local voices being heard
- Want to help strengthen storytelling and local news that reflects real life
You don’t need to be a media expert—just someone who cares about your neighbors and wants to help connect people to trustworthy, meaningful information.
Whether you’re a teacher, artist, organizer, librarian, student, or elder—your voice can help shape how Colorado sees itself.
Why It Matters
When we listen to each other, we build trust.
When we share stories, we build understanding.
And when local news reflects real people and places, we build stronger, more connected communities.
Ambassador64 gives Coloradans the power to make that happen. Every Ambassador is a trusted voice for their community—a listener, bridge-builder, and advocate who helps ensure their neighbors’ experiences and insights are represented in the stories that reach the public.
By sharing what they hear, Ambassadors bring local realities into the statewide conversation, helping RMPM and partner newsrooms understand what truly matters to the people who call Colorado home. They help close the gap between lived experience and public narrative—turning community wisdom into collective understanding.
Together, Ambassadors are transforming how public media listens and responds. They remind us that storytelling is not just about what’s reported, but who is reflected—and that every voice, in every county, has the power to shape Colorado’s story.
Interested in Joining Ambassador64?
We’d love to hear from you! Whether you’re a local organizer, teacher, student, business owner, artist, or someone who simply cares about your community—you belong in this conversation.
Questions? Email us at Ambassador64@rmpbs.org
Part of a Statewide Movement
Rocky Mountain Public Media’s Statewide Civic Engagement initiative creates a continuous listening framework—a statewide civic infrastructure where residents don’t just consume stories, they shape them.
Above the Noise
Community gatherings and film-based dialogues that help Coloradans listen, reflect, and connect across difference.
Ambassador64
Brings together individuals and organizations who are already trusted connectors in their communities.
Community Voices
First-person stories from Coloradans, shared with the Colorado Ethnic Media Exchange and translated into Spanish and Mandarin.
Our Purpose
We believe civic engagement isn’t only about voting or policy; it’s about learning to understand one another and working toward shared solutions for the places we call home.
Our Purpose
We believe civic engagement isn’t only about voting or policy; it’s about learning to understand one another and working toward shared solutions for the places we call home.
How It Works
Each Above the Noise event combines content and conversation:
- Screenings & Storytelling: Local and national public-media programs—documentaries, short features, and digital stories—serve as starting points for dialogue.
- Facilitated Conversations: Trained moderators and community ambassadors guide respectful, small-group discussions that invite multiple perspectives.
- Local Focus: Topics are chosen through listening sessions and community partnerships, ensuring every event reflects local realities, not just statewide headlines.
- Action & Reflection: Gathered insights are shared with participants, partners, and local newsrooms to keep the dialogue alive and inform future coverage and collaboration.
Why It Matters
- Rebuilding Trust: By connecting Coloradans face-to-face, Above the Noise helps restore confidence in local institutions and in one another.
- Centering Humanity: Participants practice listening across political, cultural, and generational divides.
- Strengthening Democracy: Dialogue becomes a form of civic participation—deepening understanding of local issues and shared responsibility.
- Reflecting Colorado: Events are intentionally designed to include rural, multilingual, youth, and historically excluded communities.
Why It Matters
- Rebuilding Trust: By connecting Coloradans face-to-face, Above the Noise helps restore confidence in local institutions and in one another.
- Centering Humanity: Participants practice listening across political, cultural, and generational divides.
- Strengthening Democracy: Dialogue becomes a form of civic participation—deepening understanding of local issues and shared responsibility.
- Reflecting Colorado: Events are intentionally designed to include rural, multilingual, youth, and historically excluded communities.