***In honor of Mother's Day, at this month's Downtown Luncheon, the Colorado Women's Chamber of Commerce will host a "baby shower" to benefit Denver Health's Newborns in Need.  Nearly 4,000 babies are born each year at Denver Health and 90% of their families live below the poverty line.  Your gift will help ease the transition from hospital to home for a newborn in need.  Bring a donation (make checks payable to Denver Health's Newborns in Need) or bring new baby essentials to the luncheon.  Click here for a list of essentials.  Thank you for supporting this great cause.

Ilene Kamsler, CAE is the President of the Colorado Hotel & Lodging Association, a trade association for the lodging industry in Colorado and a member state association of the American Hotel & Lodging Association.

Ilene is a graduate of Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and attended graduate school at UCLA.  She is also a graduate of the Institutes for Organizational Management, a six year program developed by the US Chamber of Commerce.

Prior to coming to Colorado, Kamsler held the very same position as executive vice president of the Utah Hotel & Motel Association for 5.5 years and was the assistant director of the Utah Ski Association.   She went to Utah to learn how to ski and worked for 5 years at the Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort; when she left Snowbird, she was the assistant food & beverage director having managed all but one of Snowbird’s eleven food outlets.

She has been the president of the Utah Society of Association Executives, the Colorado Society of Association Executives, the Utah Tourism Industry Coalition, the Tourism Industry Coalition of Colorado and the International Society of Hotel Association Executives.  She has actively worked with Colorado’s tourism industry to retain a funding mechanism for tourism promotion.