Karen Bachman the Vice-Chair of the Colorado Stonewall Democrats and has been a member since the late summer 2004. Karen is currently Co-chair of the CSD Transgender Caucus. She has been an active member of the board since 2005. On Jan.19th 2006 she was part of the "and Transgender" presentation on Transgender issues to local and state politicians as well as the general membership of CSD. Karen was part of the vital issues committee that changed the wording of the party platform with relation to LGBT issues. As a member of the board She was part of the candidate endorsement process at the last election. The transgender Caucus was instrumental in getting the attention of National Stonewall & the DNC with regard to their lack of commitment to the lgbt community (& acquiring the money for the "get out the vote" campaign). Karen is a resident of Jefferson County and is the de-facto Stonewall liaison with the Jefferson County Democrats GLBT Caucus.