Margaret Roberts
An experienced writer, Margaret's strengths include conducting research, distilling information and effectively communicating complicated ideas to inform public opinion. She has written detailed policy reports, articles, replication manuals, business plans, website content and flyers for a broad range of organizations with a focus on health, aging, education, children, disabilities and community advocacy.
As a consultant, Margaret has helped nonprofits build their capacity and communicate their vision through planning, training and writing. She is well known for her ability to forge strong working relationships that engage people in a collaborative approach to attain project and organizational goals.
Highlights of her work include:
- Coordinated Rose Community Foundation's Boomers Leading Change initiative to engage adults 50+ in civic engagement, including managing a Denver and statewide community assessment and developing a health project to recruit, train and deploy older adults as health care navigators and advocates (www.coloradoboomers.com).
- Published articles in Health News, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Consumers Association's Which? and Which? Way to Health; national medical journals in Canada; and various nonprofit newsletters in the U.S.
- Developed toolkits and replication manuals including Centura Health's Health Passport program.
- Wrote policy publications like Recommendations for increasing service of adults 55+ for Colorado's Governor's Commission on Community Service state service plan and program reports such as The Art & Craft Initiative about expanding micro-enterprise programs to support indigenous artists living in HIV-affected communities in Africa and across the globe.
- Earned an M.Ed from University of Washington and a B.A. in journalism from City University, London.
Margaret lives in central Denver with her husband; her daughter is graduating from college in Maine and her son attends college in California. When not writing, Margaret is busy gardening, preparing jam, putting up peaches, canning the family's secret tomato sauce or preparing a meal for a women's shelter.