
Ben Cowan
CHAIRBen has been politically active for over 20 years, starting with the Howard Dean Presidential campaign in 2003. He began volunteering for the Boulder County Democrats in 2008, just after moving to Colorado. He has continued to be involved since, as a Precinct Organizer and volunteer, in Longmont and then in Boulder. In the 2020 campaign, he volunteered extensively for the Elizabeth Warren campaign, including as Canvass Captain. He stepped up his involvement with BCDP in 2022, joining the Bylaws Team, and soon earned a Team Leader position. In that role, he got to know in detail the work of teams across the party, addressing concerns about how our rules could better serve their needs. Outside of politics, Ben a physicist, specializing in particle accelerators and supercomputing. As Chair of a Physics conference, he led a successful effort to dramatically improve the representation of women. He is also an avid runner, and has competed in races from Boulder to Boston to Berlin. He lives just outside Boulder city limits with his husband and their four cats.