EDGAR ALAN RIVERA
DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGER
Edgar Alan Rivera (he/him) joined Healthier United as Digital Content Manager in July 2026. A first-generation college graduate raised in Durango, Mexico, and Aurora, Colorado, Edgar spent years in the marketing agency world before deciding to put those skills to use serving his community.
Prior to joining Healthier United, Edgar built his career at Movement Strategy, a social-first creative agency, where he worked at all levels of the creative process, eventually becoming a Senior Art Director and working on marketing campaigns for brands like Netflix and Prime Video. Edgar then joined Estime Studio, a small creative team of individuals working on all kinds of creative projects with great partners and organizations.
Earlier, he cut his teeth as a Digital Design Intern at History Colorado, working on small design projects and others that have stood the test of time, like the museum's logo for Colorado's birthday celebrations on August 1st.
Edgar holds a BFA in Digital Design from the University of Colorado Denver. Outside of work, he can be found running with his rescue mutt at sunrise, volunteering at Denver Book Give, and discovering new restaurants on the weekends with his wife.
JAKE WILLIAMS
CEO
Jake Williams (he/him) is the founding CEO of Healthier United. He previously led Healthier Colorado and created a series of complementary entities that now constitute the family of Healthier organizations. At Healthier Colorado, his team secured policy wins such as universal access to preschool, significant reductions in consumer health care costs, improving access to mental health support, elevating childhood immunization rates, and reducing youth use of nicotine. They also successfully influenced hundreds of candidate elections and supported dozens of victorious ballot measures.
As the host of the Wooden Teeth podcast, Jake engages in discussions centered on the intersection of politics and health. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Sungate Kids, an organization dedicated to preventing child sexual abuse and supporting survivors and their families. Earlier in his career, Jake worked to change state laws across the country to realize LGBTQ equality, led state and federal campaigns to conserve natural resources and address climate change, worked within the labor movement to support health care workers, and served as an operative within electoral campaigns at the local, state and federal levels.
Jake is a proud citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, and an active Potawatomi language learner. He earned a Master of Science in Comparative Politics and Policy from the London School of Economics, an Executive MBA from Brown and IE Universities, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Communications from the University of Michigan. He lives with his wife and two children in Colorado.
KATE STIGBERG
CHIEF OF STAFF
Kate (she/her) has spent more than a decade within the Healthier family of organizations, beginning as Senior Director of Activism at Healthier Colorado and later becoming Open Answer’s first Executive Director. During her tenure, she has led and supported nearly 40 local ballot measure campaigns across Colorado, founded Healthy Air and Water Colorado, played a key role in launching Open Answer, and expanded the organization’s work into North Carolina.
Prior to joining Healthier Colorado, Kate spent seven years in the labor movement– starting as a union organizer with Colorado WINS (the state employees’ union), then serving as Program Manager for the Colorado AFL-CIO, and later as Political and Legislative Director for AFT Colorado.
Kate holds a Master of Social Work from the University of South Carolina and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Illinois in her hometown of Champaign-Urbana. She lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina with her family and enjoys cooking, staying active, and gardening in her free time.