Darrell Watson

Council Member District 9 - Denver City Council

Darrell is the co-founder and principal of the Watson Wenk Group, a catalyst transforming how governmental agencies, for profit businesses, and nonprofits leverage justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) as transformational tools for collaborative engagement in BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of color) and other untapped communities.

He was the founding chair of the Housing Stability Strategic Advisors board co-creating with community common sense policies to address the housing crisis as well as developing strategies to increase wrap around services that lead to permanent housing for currently unsheltered residents.

As the former co-Chair of the Denver Game Plan for a Healthy City, a former Chair of the Denver Parks and Recreation Advisory Board (DPRAB) and former Chair and founding board member of the Denver Park Trust, Darrell has collaborated with community members, Denver Parks and Recreation, and Denver City Council members to pass common sense policies that created a dedicated funding source for parks, created a foundation to increase park space and quality parks throughout Denver and created the 30-year strategic plan, Gameplan for a Healthy City, detailing strategies that will lead Denver in reclaiming its ‘City in a Park’ heritage.

As the former co-Chair of the Denver Biased Policing Task Force. He coordinated with Denver City Council, the office of the Mayor, Denver Police Department, and the wider community to update DPD training when contacting community members and create tactics to reduce instances of biased policing across the city.

Darrell is the Vice-Chair of the Land Use, Transportation & Infrastructure committee and sits on the Safety, Housing, Education & Homelessness committee. You can contact his office at 720-337-7709 or by email at district9@denvergov.org