{"id":189509,"date":"2025-05-22T14:43:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestbuddies.org\/?p=189509"},"modified":"2025-05-22T14:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:50:27","slug":"friendship-inclusion-and-the-power-of-showing-up-how-best-buddies-is-building-belonging-in-colorados-roaring-fork-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbuddies.org\/2025\/05\/22\/friendship-inclusion-and-the-power-of-showing-up-how-best-buddies-is-building-belonging-in-colorados-roaring-fork-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship, inclusion, and the power of showing up: How Best Buddies is building belonging in Colorado\u2019s Roaring Fork Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”189517″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]Rachael Fischer is a skier, a storyteller, and a state director with a mission. The Indiana native now leads Best Buddies in Colorado, part of a global nonprofit born from the Kennedy-Shriver legacy, that\u2019s redefining inclusion for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). We met for coffee and our conversation quickly shifted from ski stories to something powder day deep \u2014 how one organization is transforming communities, one friendship at a time.<\/p>\n