Michele Mickens

Michele has a passion for serving the community. Before joining the staff at CAAH she served on the Healthcare committee with Metro Organizations for People (MOP) currently, Together Colorado, a non-partisan interfaith organization and member of the PICO National Network. She was instrumental in the development of the Clergy Caucus and addressing issues such as Tuition Equity, Concurrent Enrollment, Health care for all kids by 2010, The Colorado Health Care Affordability Act, Payday Lending Reform and in concert with the PICO National Network, she also supported the DREAM Act, Economic Recovery, and the Renewal and Robust funding for SCHIP. She served as a facilitator of the “Project Power” diabetes program and has volunteered for numerous events at the Center for African American Health. 

She is a founding member of Restoration Christian Fellowship where she served as the Health Ministry Liaison with her husband Gordon E. Duvall RN., PNP. Their vision was to have a clinic that would serve as the medical home for the many medically underserved in the community.

Michele has more than 15 years’ experience in the financial industry but after the market crash work was hard to come by, so she decided to return to school and make a career change. She attended the Community College of Denver, The Women’s College at DU, MSU Denver and California Baptist University pursuing her BS in Exercise Science with an emphasis in Special Populations and Adult Fitness and a minor in nutrition. 

Michele enjoys reading, motorcycling, listening to jazz, dancing and fitness.  She was born in Los Angeles, California but was raised here in Colorado. She has four children Dominic, Koree, Zachary (deceased), and Marchele’ and nine grandchildren Natalie, Gabriella, Mathias, James, Bry Anna, Joseph, Zara, Kasana and Little Zachary.