Sarah Tory

Dec 25, 2024 | coloradosun.com | Sarah Tory

Natalie Gentry, a former journalist and social worker living in Denver, moved eight times between 2009 and 2022. The moves came on the heels of her divorce in 2009, forcing Gentry to start her life over again. That meant rebuilding the massage therapy business she had taken a step back from while dealing with fertility issues and marital problems in the years before her divorce.

Oct 17, 2024 | motherjones.com | Sarah Tory

For six days, a man we’ll call Martín walked across a remote stretch of the Sonoran Desert between Mexico and southern Arizona with a guide and six other migrants. It was February 2023, and the nights were frighteningly cold. One morning, he awoke to the desert painted white—the first time he had seen snow. They walked and walked. It snowed again, and they kept walking—until Martín couldn’t walk anymore. Three months earlier, the 23-year-old had left his home in Guatemala’s western highlands.

Oct 10, 2024 | coloradosun.com | Sarah Tory

When Bonnie Hernandez and her husband Roberto sold their home in Denver and moved to Steamboat Springs in 2022 with their 1-year-old daughter, it fulfilled a long-held dream of living in the mountains and escaping long commutes to work. Bonnie Hernandez had a new job at a private foundation serving youth and families, and soon after moving, her husband found a job with a local nonprofit.

Jun 1, 2024 | hcn.org | Sarah Tory

From a bluff overlooking a sunbaked valley outside Farmington, New Mexico, Aaron Facka and Michael Dax watched a black helicopter soar, thrumming loudly as it swooped low over the landscape. Inside, three men searched the grasslands for the white specks of pronghorn, the antelope-like creatures that inhabit the Western plains of North America. It was early March, cloudless and warm, but Facka and Dax, who both work for the Wildlands Network, an environmental nonprofit, were nervous.

Mar 29, 2024 | coloradosun.com | Sarah Tory

The first house that Michelle Chavez owned was in a suburb south of Denver. To pay her mortgage, she worked three jobs — for Arapahoe County, Home Depot, and at a nearby golf course. But when Chavez became pregnant, she had to quit two jobs and couldn’t keep up with her mortgage payments. She lost the house and moved in with her parents.  A few years later, Chavez and her parents had a falling out. By then a single mother of three, Chavez tried and failed to find another place to live.