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Prior to joining City Year Denver in May 2026 as Senior Vice President and Executive Director, John Wolfkill served as Executive Director of the Community College of Aurora Foundation (CCAF) in Aurora, Colorado, where he was responsible for leading the Foundation’s strategic fundraising plan and activities to support the Community College of Aurora (CCA). His primary efforts focused on the foundation’s scholarship program which provided over $1.3 million in scholarships and $70.000 in emergency assistance to more than 500 students attending CCA. He also led fundraising initiatives for CCA’s academic departments, recently completing an $18.3 million capital campaign for the Center for Applied Science and Technology, the college’s first new building in 25 years. John completed his Master of Science degree in International and Intercultural Education and Development at the University of Southern California and became keenly interested in community development. He worked as an urban planner for the Watts Labor Community Action Committee (Los Angeles, CA) and then became the Associate Director of the P.F. Bresee Foundation, a faith-based youth and family development center. He spent nearly seven years as the Director of Administration and Donor Partnerships at the Tulsa Community Foundation, one of the largest community foundations in the country. After learning that only one to two percent of Tulsa’s African American and Hispanic youth were graduating from high school prepared to begin college without remediation, he left the foundation to become Executive Director of KIPP Tulsa, an open-enrollment college-preparatory, public charter school from 2011-2016. At KIPP Tulsa, over 90% of his students qualified for the federal free or reduced lunch program and 97% of students were African American or Hispanic. More importantly, 97% of his students would go on to graduate high school, with over 80% enrolling in college.    In his spare time, John enjoys date nights with his college sweetheart and wife, Julie; mountain biking, skiing, playing pickleball, and bagging 14ers with his two sons. John and his 17-year old son have bagged thirteen 14ers together with plans to climb 3-5 more this summer.