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NEW FACES
AT THE GATES CENTER
Carmen Garcia: Carmen Garcia assumed the position of research administrative manager at the Gates Center in September 2016. Having begun her career at the University of California, Irvine, as an administrative analyst/system administrator, Carmen went on to work as special assistant to the vice president at the University of New Mexico and a budget analyst/ administrative coordinator at Iowa State University. Subsequent to her move to the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in 2011, she worked as a grants specialist in the Department of Pediatrics and grant contract manager at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes.
Carmen offers years of experience in accounting, budget planning and providing administrative support derived from serving within four institutions of higher education. She also holds a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University and an MBA from the University of Phoenix. In addition to her experience and expertise, she brings dedication, tenacity and a wonderfully generous spirit to the Gates Center. She kindly volunteers her bilingual skills to help prepare some of our post docs that provide service to linguistically and culturally diverse populations at Children’s Hospital.
Born in Mexico City, Carmen is proud of her heritage and her United States citizenship. She is also the proud mother of two grown children, and her interests include gardening and reading.
Yvette Pita Frampton: Yvette Pita Frampton, who grew up in Miami, Florida, as part of a large family of exiles, joined the Gates Center Advisory Board in January 2016. A community leader, she has served as a board member for the Denver Health Foundation (vice chair), the Denver Health Volunteer Association Board (president), the Level One Society, the Davidson College Alumni Association Board (vice president) and the Documentary Cinema Institute. She currently serves on the Davidson College Board of Trustees. Yvette also has been an active volunteer with Project C.U.R.E. and Graland Country Day School, where her children are students. She and her husband, Chris, whom she met in college, have three children.
Yvette is an award-winning filmmaker. Her work has screened on PBS and at film festivals across the world, including South by Southwest, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, the HBO Urbanworld Film Festival and the New York International Latino Film Festival. She has taught film theory, writing, editing and production at Hollins University, the CU Denver and the Colorado Film Video Institute at the Community College of Aurora.
She holds a BA in English from Davidson College and an MFA in Film Directing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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