Helen J. Gemmill

Chair of the Board

Helen is a graduate student in the International Studies program of University of Denver, focusing on international water policy. She serves on the board of The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County (Colorado), where she recently completed her term as Chair. She serves on the boards of the Global Greengrants Fund and the White House Project as well.

Her family’s charitable foundation, the Warwick Foundation, founded by her grandparents in 1961, completed its spend-down of assets in the summer of 2011, which included the gift of her family’s apple farm (bought in 1941 by her grandfather) in Pennsylvania to DelVal College. She was born and raised in New Hampshire, and graduated from Middlebury College (VT) with a degree in International Studies and French Literature, before heading to Boulder, Colorado. Helen loves living near mountains, and enjoys hiking, running, biking and swimming in the trails and pools in her “backyard.” She shares a home with her husband and their two dogs.