Anna Stout

Council Member Anna Stout, District C

Term expires: November 2027
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Biography

Anna Stout was elected to the Grand Junction City Council in 2019 for District C. She served as Mayor from 2022-2024 and Mayor Pro Tem from 2021-2022.

Anna has lived in Grand Junction since 1989 and is a graduate of D51 schools and Colorado Mesa University. She served as the CEO  of the Roice-Hurst Humane Society from 2015-2024 and has over 20 years of nonprofit and business experience. 

Professional Career

Anna is the founder and president of the Foundation for Cultural Exchange, a local nonprofit founded in 2004 to facilitate Grand Junction's official sister city relationship in El Espino, El Salvador. She also organizes citizen exchange delegations to the country and previously led annual spay/neuter brigades aimed at improving animal, human, environmental, and community health in the sister city community.

Anna is a Certified Animal Welfare Administrator (CAWA), one of just over 200 people worldwide to hold that distinction. Anna is also a Certified Court Interpreter and ATA Certified Translator from Spanish to English, and owns Transfinem Language and Cultural Services. She has worked extensively within the legal, business, and medical fields and with Spanish-speaking populations throughout the state, including as an upper-division Spanish instructor at Colorado Mesa University and as an interpreter trainer throughout the Western Slope.

Anna currently runs Luminary Strategy, a nonprofit and local government consulting firm that specializes in strategic planning, strategic communications, resilient funding strategies, and executive leadership support.

Education

Anna has a Master's degree in Global Affairs with an emphasis on Organizational Leadership from the University of Denver and a Bachelor's in Spanish Literature and Language and Applied Professional Spanish with a minor in International Relations from Colorado Mesa University. Additionally, she holds certificates in organizational leadership and executive fundraising.

Public Service

Anna has served on many boards and commissions in Grand Junction and throughout the state. In addition to chairing the Foundation for Cultural Exchange, she currently sits on the CiviCO board of directors and its Governors Fellowship Design Team, the Rocky Mountain Public Media board of directors, the Colorado Municipal League Executive Board, and she is the chair of the Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board, to which she was appointed by the governor in 2023. Anna serves as the Council liaison to the Colorado Municipal League, including to its Policy Committee, and to the Grand Junction Regional Air Service Alliance, the Mesa County Regional Opioid Settlement Governance Boad, and the Mesa County Community Services Block Grant Board. She formerly served on the Animal Welfare Association of Colorado board of directors, including as the co-chair of its Advocacy Committee, the Visit Grand Junction Advisory Board, the Business Incubator Center board of directors, the Mesa County Animal Services Advisory Board, the Grand Junction Downtown Development Authority board, the Grand Junction Commission on Arts and Culture board, the KAFM Community Advisory Board, and the Colorado Association of Professional Interpreters, among others.

Personal Life

Anna's passions are aimless travel, writing, hiking, her menagerie of pets (including the many neonatal foster kittens she cares for each year), and forging new connections.