Denver City Council rep Amanda Sandoval has had a front-row seat to the changes in northwest Denver.
can look at her life in northwest Denver as if she were using a library’s microfilm device. She can turn it all the way to the left and see her grandparents arriving in Denver from New Mexico, then her grandmother picking pinto beans in Brighton while her grandfather worked at a meatpacking plant in Globeville.
“In my lifetime, I’ve experienced the loss of culture in northwest Denver,” Sandoval explains. “Murals have been painted over. Old restaurants, Latino and Italian, have closed in favor of big apartment buildings. By the time people I went to school with at North High School in the late 1990s were old enough to buy a home, they were priced out of the neighborhood. A lot of my friends live in different jurisdictions now.
, Hispanics and Latinos are 1.7 times more likely to contract COVID-19 than their non-Hispanic white counterparts, as well as 4.1 times more likely to be hospitalized from COVID-19 and 2.8 times more likely to die from COVID-19. Communities of color have also been disproportionately harmed by the economic fallout: They accounted for 23 percent of the initial job loss because of the pandemic while making up only 16 percent of the civilian non-institutional population.
City councilmember Jamie Torres and Senator Julie Gonzales helped Amanda Sandoval with the COVID equity clinics.“It’s important to note that the work we were doing in these equity clinics was intercultural,” Sandoval explains. “A lot of times we weren’t just vaccinating the grandma, we were vaccinating her daughter, too. In Latino cultures, we all hang out together, we support each other. Not all cultures do that.
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