The Edgewater Collective is helping promote programs and partnerships to improve education, economic opportunity and civic engagement with Latino communities across Jefferson County.The nonprofit, based in Edgewater, was founded in 2012.“We saw needs in our local schools, and wanted to do everything we could to fix them. But over the last 11 years, really learning about our community, building relationships with immigrants in the Edgewater area.
“I feel honored to be able to do what I'm doing now, no matter the work,” Deisy Bebersi, an Edgewater Cleaning Cooperative member, said through an English translator from the language co-op.Berbesi speaks Spanish, and arrived in Denver two years ago.“I'm from Venezuela, and I had to leave my country just for the situation that's happening out there,” Berbesi said. “I basically run away from my country and came to the US to be able to start over here.