Chloe Anderson

Marisa Collins holds a sign with the message “Ban guns, not our kids' future,” during the Here4TheKids gun violence prevention sit-in at the Colorado Capitol on June 5, 2023. (Chloe Anderson for Colorado Newsline)

James Holmes Sr., right, smiles at his son, 17-year-old James H. Holmes Jr., as they sit outside the Lafayette Public Library on Aug. 7, 2023. The two have been unhoused for several years, and Holmes Sr. recently filed a lawsuit against the City of Lafayette for failing to provide adequate indoor shelter for homeless people. (Chloe Anderson for The Colorado Sun)

Ronaiber Alarcon, 6, and Isabella Jinares, 4, play in the former Westerner Motel’s parking lot in Denver on Aug. 3, 2023. Hotel conversions have become a popular idea to increase Colorado’s supply of supportive housing for people exiting homelessness, but there is an open question regarding this strategy’s long-term viability. (Chloe Anderson for Colorado Newsline)

Laura Lindquist is one of the dozens of residents facing homelessness since Denver announced that the Rodeway Inn will close in August. The Gathering Place — a Denver-based nonprofit — began renting the old hotel in August 2020 to give female, transgender and nonbinary people a safe place to call home. The organization’s lease is up on Aug. 24, 2023. (Chloe Anderson for Colorado Newsline)

A young Carmelo Anthony fan watches as a basketball enthusiast thrusts a Nuggets sign into the face of a man spouting religious rhetoric at the Denver Nuggets Championship parade on June 15, 2023. (Chloe Anderson for Boulder Beat)

Sgt. Fabiola Torres comforts Annette Hardaway, the mother of Sidnee Carter, during the Law Enforcement Memorial Candlelight Vigil on May 19, 2023. Carter was killed in the line of duty in October 2022 when a motorist failed to yield to a stop sign and struck Carter’s patrol car. She was 22 years old. (Chloe Anderson for Kansas Reflector)

76-year-old Donaciano Martinez marches in the Denver Pride parade with a sign that reads “I’ve been marching for justice since 1965," on June 25, 2023. (Chloe Anderson for Colorado Newsline)

4-year-old Isabella Jinares rides her bicycle around the former Westerner Motel’s parking lot in Denver on Aug. 3, 2023. (Chloe Anderson for Colorado Newsline) 

Jennifer Ochs is pictured in her apartment on Aug. 7, 2023. Ochs, an advocate who was named Ms. Wheelchair Colorado earlier this year,  is one of several Arapahoe Court residents who will have to relocate when the complex is sold in September 2023. (Chloe Anderson for Boulder Reporting Lab)

Dozens of people follow law enforcement officers from the Kansas Statehouse to a monument honoring those killed in the line of duty during a vigil on May 19, 2023.  (Chloe Anderson for Kansas Reflector)

Monica Rodriguez prepares to dance in the Denver Pride parade with other Bella Diva World Dance students on June 25, 2023. (Chloe Anderson for Colorado Newsline)

Tyrone Green of the Kickapoo and Potawatomi tribes adjusts his headdress during the 34th annual KU First Nations Student Association powwow on April 8, 2023. Green said he’s been dancing since he could walk, and he looks forward to the Grand Entry every year. (Chloe Anderson for the Lawrence Times)

28-year-old Samantha Bowers, known professionally as Sammy Rae, is the frontwoman for the blues-pop-rock band Sammy Rae and The Friends. Hundreds packed the Granada Theater to see the group perform in Lawrence on Oct. 31, 2022. (Chloe Anderson for the Lawrence Times)

Carl Folsom III, right, puts on his robe after he's sworn in as a Douglas County District Court judge on Dec. 2, 2022, with help from his wife, Karen Ebmeier, and their daughter, Evelyn. (Chloe Anderson for the Lawrence Times)

Mike Quillin, an image processing specialist by day and astronomy enthusiast by night, raises a hand to block the parking garage’s light for a better view of the International Space Station during Planetpalooza, an event hosted by the Astronomy Associates of Lawrence on April 3, 2023. (Chloe Anderson for the Lawrence Times)