Instructor

Esther Blazon

Esther Blazon graduated from Longmont High School in 1968 after marriage and the birth of her children and then attended CU Boulder through a program for migrant workers’ children.  After receiving her undergraduate degree, she worked as the first director of bilingual education for the St. Vrain School District; later she obtained a master’s degree in counseling from the University of Northern Colorado. For the next 23 years she worked for Boulder County as a mental health specialist and coordinator of the program Circulo de la Vida Familiar. Active in many community and volunteer organizations, Blazon was one of the founders of the Boulder County Latino History Project and served as the Chair of its Advisory Committee.