Elissa Hardy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of Colorado. In 2015, she was hired and initiated the Community Resource Program at the Denver Public Library, which now employs a total of 12 staff members including social workers, resource specialists, and peer navigators. Elissa is an adjunct instructor at the University of Denver's Graduate School of Social Work and teaches courses on program development and evaluation as well as social and environmental justice policy. In 2022, Elissa completed a masters degree in environmental law and policy, and aspires to combine this expertise with her twenty years of experience with her master's degree in social work.