FCSG Steering Committee
The Steering Committee is the decision-making body of the Fort Collins Sustainability Group. Decisions are made by consensus (see separate menu item for details). There is no limit placed on the number of Steering Committee members; new members are always welcomed. Those interested in joining should support our mission and objectives, and should be committed to attending our monthly meetings on a regular basis.
Kevin Cross
Kevin is a founding member of the FCSG, and has been a member of the Steering Committee since 2005. He also represents FCSG on the board of the Northern Colorado Alliance for a Livable Future (NCALF). Kevin got his start as an activist opposing U.S. support for the Contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s. He has a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of California – Davis and an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Kevin currently works as a Senior Engineer for a small energy consulting firm, and is registered as a professional engineer in the State of Colorado. He has also taught high school and college classes in math and science in California and Wisconsin.
Elizabeth Hudetz
Elizabeth joined the FCSG Steering Committee in 2018. She moved to Ft. Collins in 1988, and immediately got involved in the fight against burning hazardous waste at a cement plant in LaPorte. She has been an activist focused primarily on air quality and the environment ever since. Elizabeth has served on the Fort Collins Transportation Board and the Natural Resources Advisory Board, and is a member of 350.org, the Sierra Club, and Save the Poudre. Elizabeth was a leader in getting the Fort Collins fracking moratorium passed in 2013, and ran for mayor in 2017. She is a musician, with degrees from Colorado State University and the University of Northern Colorado. Elizabeth recently retired from teaching music in the public schools, although she still writes and performs. She focuses most of her attention on political themes these days.
Barb Krupnik-Goldman
Barb is a retired speech language pathologist, originally from South Bend, Indiana. After living in the midwest she moved to Fort Collins in 1979, where she started raising her family and attended grad school at CSU. She moved to Maumee, Ohio in 2002, and then to Portland, Oregon in 2012, and back to Fort Collins in 2022. Barb and her husband, Howard, have six children and eight grandkids. She has been interested in environmental issues all her life, but during many years of raising kids, going back to school and working, just participated by signing an occasional petition and making a few donations. In 2013, when she was (finally) an empty nester, Barb checked a box in an email saying, ‘Yes, I am interested in volunteering to help stop the KXL pipeline.’ She was lucky to get hooked up with wonderful climate activist mentors in Portland who taught her so much. Barb supported campaigns in the pacific northwest, focusing on export facilities, pipelines and divestment. Upon her return to CO, Barb was shocked to see the extent of fracking that had grown over the 20 years she was gone. She started looking for climate groups to work with and discovered 350CO, FCSG and several other groups doing good work to phase out fracking and advance local climate initiatives. Thanks to great mentors in Colorado, she’s learning to engage with elected officials.
Christina Swope
Christina joined the FCSG Steering Committee in 2026. She moved to Fort Collins in 2010 from southwestern Colorado. She attended CSU and has degrees in Soil and Crop Sciences, Organic Agriculture, and Environmental Sociology. She is active in local political groups, 350CO and a member of the Air Quality Advisory Board. Christina has always been interested in environmentalism and climate change and believes that some of the most effective changes we can make start at the local level. She hopes to help connect FCSG with community members who want to keep our city accountable to its climate goals and protect our beautiful area. She loves listening to live music and bird watching.
FCSG Science Advisor
The Fort Collins Sustainability Group strives to base its policy recommendations and advocacy work on the best available science. We have had two science advisors since our inception: Dr. Todd Ringler of Los Alamos National Laboratory (September 2006 – January 2010) and Dr. Scott Denning of Colorado State University’s Atmospheric Sciences Department (January 2010 – present). The role of the FCSG Science Advisor is to provide the latest scientific information concerning the atmosphere and global climate change to the Steering Committee. The Science Advisor does not play an advocacy role.
Scott Denning
Scott Denning is Monfort Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University and Director of Education and Diversity for the Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes (CMMAP), a major climate modeling center. His undergraduate degree was in Geology and he worked in the oil industry in the 1980s before earning his PhD in Atmospheric Science in 1994. His research on the global carbon cycle has been published in nearly 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He’s a past Editor of the Journal of Climate and served as founding Science Chair for the North American Carbon Program. Scott first moved to Fort Collins in 1979 and lives here with his spouse, two sons, a dog, and two cats. He spends as many clear nights as possible photographing the cosmos from a mountain cabin.