Transit Promotores
Transit Promotores is an 8-week certificate program for bilingual (Spanish/English) Latinx community members that builds on your lived experience and community connections and gives you the tools and group-learning opportunities, experience, and connections to expand and mobilize your coalition around transit advocacy.
Mobility advocacy spaces often lack Latino/a voices, even though many Latino/a community members rely on and care deeply about high-quality transit, safe mobility connections and accessibility. This program is designed to change that by supporting participants to become public transportation advocates and connectors within their communities.
You’ll learn alongside other community leaders in online, in-person, and on-the-street classes, completing assignments while helping shape the program itself. Together, you’ll build skills to mobilize your network and influence real decisions, such as RTD’s bus network redesignand the Speer Blvd/Leetsdale Blvd/Parker Rd study for Bus Rapid Transit, this fall and beyond. And you’ll have fun!
Together, we’ll learn about:
- The history of transportation, mobility justice, and inequity in the Denver region
- Who makes decisions about public transportation and how to influence them
- The most effective strategies for advocating for better transit options as an an individual and community, including harnessing social media, working with the press and elected officials, and bringing decision-makers to experience the issues themselves
At the end of the program, you’ll receive an Advocacy Certificate from the Denver Streets Partnership (DSP). As a member of the Transit Promotores Program Alumni, we hope you’ll become a liaison between DSP and your network within the Latino community, helping to empower more folks to become advocates for better public transportation!
There is no cost to participate. $1,200 stipends are available for participants who complete the program.
This program will be offered in Spanish and English. If you speak only English, consider applying for our other fall program, the Advocacy Academy.
Learn more and compare DSP’s two advocacy certificate programs.
Application Process
- This program is open to bilingual Spanish/English people aged 15+ who live in Denver, Wheat Ridge, Aurora, Lakewood, Englewood, Commerce City, Brighton, Adams County, Federal Heights, Arvada/Jefferson County. (If you’re under 18, you will need your parent’s or guardian’s permission.)
- Complete this short application.
- Application deadline: Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. MST
- If you’re under age 18, be sure to ask your parent’s or guardian’s permission.
- Space is limited to 10 participants.
Time Commitment
Each week, participants should expect to dedicate three to four hours to the program. Post-program, participants will be encouraged to engage in our work and help mobilize members of the Latino/a community as opportunities to advocate arise.
- Thursday evenings for 2-hour classes
- Roughly half of the classes will be online; the other half will be in person; a few include moving on the street together.
- Participants must be present and engaged for at least 7 classes, and complete at least 5 assignments in order to receive the stipend.
- Each week you’ll complete a tactical assignment designed to make a difference on a decision happening during the program or soon afterward.
- Two times over the course of the program, participants will have the opportunity to meet in-person or online with the program leaders to get help on assignments, get questions answered, and get to know each other a little better.
Past Class Examples
Transit accessibility is about more than buses and trains
Content – Why pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure (like wider sidewalks and protected bike lanes) is a critical part of our public transportation system
Skill – Building your power by coming together in a coalition: Who is your network? How would you mobilize your network to take action?
Assignment – Create a plan to mobilize your community around transit
Become a Transit Influencer
Content – How people are sharing transit stories and how you can expand your reach
Skill – Maximizing grassroots support for your cause through short form (45 sec-1 min long) videos
Assignment – Create a series of images/a video that convey your experience walking/rolling/taking transit