David Engelken is a writer, musician, experienced urban community organizer, and retired public school Spanish teacher. Engelken is intrigued by writing and organizing for rural and urban cross-alliances that create grassroots democratic empowerment from shared self-interests. He currently aids a fast-growing group from Kossuth County, Iowa that is taking the state by storm. His body of literary work includes a cover story for Boulder Weekly and the Progressive Populist called “Milking the Family Farm” and two topical non-fiction books with extended stays on metro-Denver’s national best-seller list. He grew up on a northeast Kansas family farm and has long lived and worked in central Denver. With his wife Tricia, he has three adult children who have each started families of their own in Denver, Colorado.