Derrick Wilburn is a Colorado school-board and nonprofit actor whose current repository footprint now includes direct campaign-finance, nonprofit, Charis program, and platform-appearance records alongside the wider Academy District 20 conflict and litigation summaries.
In this repository, Wilburn matters because he links several strands of the Colorado public-education corpus: Academy District 20 school-board politics, Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives and POC Capitol Interns, Charis Bible College's Practical Government program, Truth & Liberty show appearances, and later Wilburn v. Guthrie litigation. The current source set supports a durable page for recurring documented roles and affiliations, but it does not support every stronger network claim that appears in advocacy or commentary sources.
- Role or function: school-board candidate and board member, nonprofit leader, recurring conservative media guest
- Scope: Academy District 20 and adjacent Colorado school-board politics
- Known aliases: none established in the current corpus
- Relevant affiliations: Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives, POC Capitol Interns, Charis Bible College, Practical Government School, Truth & Liberty
- Important context: Charis and Church Voter Guides materials support roster, instructor-list, and self-description claims, but not payroll, contract, or broader coordination claims
- Additional direct speech layer in current corpus: a
2023-10-13 district-hosted student forum, a 2023 Heidi Ganahl interview, and a 2026 Truth & Liberty litigation episode show Wilburn publicly tying Colorado school politics to explicit Christian civic-engagement language, book-content conflict, and his later defamation case
- Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives: RMBC self-description names Wilburn as founder and executive director.
- POC Capitol Interns: RMBC and POCC self-description pages describe Wilburn as the driving force behind the internship program and place it under RMBC.
Elect Derrick Wilburn (20235045488): Colorado TRACER identifies this as Wilburn's candidate committee for the 2023 Academy 20 race.- Charis Bible College / Practical Government School: Charis program page, Charis catalog, and Wilburn's own candidate-guide responses support program and instructor-list ties, but not employment or contract claims.
- Truth & Liberty: multiple Truth & Liberty and Spreaker episode pages support repeated guest appearances and co-appearances with Richard Harris and others.
¶ Evidence and source basis
wiki/summaries/derrick-wilburn-direct-source-profile-and-institutional-ties.md: compiles the direct-source layer for Wilburn's nonprofit, campaign, Charis, and Truth & Liberty ties while separating self-description from independent reporting.raw/datasets/2026-04-06T110500-0600 elect-derrick-wilburn-tracer-candidate-detail.md: provides the strongest direct record for Wilburn's 2023 Academy 20 candidacy, committee ID, termination dates, and registered agent.raw/articles/2026-04-06T110500-0600 rocky-mountain-black-conservatives-home.md: provides RMBC self-description naming Wilburn as founder and executive director and linking him to POC Capitol Interns.raw/articles/2026-04-06T110500-0600 pocc-internship-about-us.md: states that POC Capitol Interns is an outreach of RMBC.raw/articles/2026-04-06T110500-0600 charis-bible-college-practical-government-school.md: provides direct Charis program language and the Richard Harris to Truth & Liberty linkage.raw/papers/2026-04-06T110500-0600 charis-bible-college-catalog-2023-2024.md: provides roster-style Practical Government School ties involving Wilburn, Richard Harris, Mark Cowart, and Andrew Wommack.raw/papers/2026-04-06T110500-0600 church-voter-guides-d20-2023-school-board-voter-guide.md: preserves Wilburn's own self-description that he taught original curriculum for the School of Practical Government at Charis.raw/video/2023-04-13 - Ep. 4 - Back to Our FAITH, Back to Winning (Derrick Wilburn).md: preserves Wilburn's direct rhetoric about pastors, Christian political participation, and D20 conflict.raw/video/2023-10-13 - Student Led Academy District 20 - Board of Education Candidate Forum.md: preserves the direct school-hosted forum record of Wilburn's October 2023 explicit-book-reading performance that later drove chat backlash, reporting, and litigation.raw/video/2026-02-02 - Lawlessness Exposed with Dave Illingworth and Derrick Wilburn.md: preserves Wilburn's direct account of the D20 library-reading controversy and related litigation.wiki/summaries/academy-district-20-manufactured-outrage-and-candidate-network.md: provides the main repository basis for Wilburn's role in D20 book-ban panic, anti-trans-athlete conflict, and parent-intimidation reportingwiki/summaries/colorado-public-education-privatization-and-christian-nationalist-webinar-cluster.md: adds webinar-level framing that places Wilburn in church-linked candidate mobilization and leaked coordination around D20 politicswiki/summaries/d20-advocates-chat-export-cluster-2022-2023.md: adds first-hand chat-export evidence for campaign promotion, internal reaction to his October 2023 forum rhetoric, and the broader D20 advocacy network around him
- The current corpus now supports a separate legal-dispute summary and timeline, but it still does not show the final Colorado Supreme Court outcome or the post-remand district-court sequence.
- The current source set supports repeated Truth & Liberty appearances and Charis program ties, but not a stronger employment, payroll, or organizational leadership claim inside those institutions.
- Some contextual reporting links Wilburn to wider church-outreach and independent-expenditure networks, but those claims still need more primary backing than this pass provides.
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- POCC Internship about us
- Elect Derrick Wilburn TRACER candidate detail
- Charis Bible College Practical Government School
- Charis Bible College catalog 2023-2024
- Church Voter Guides D20 2023 school board voter guide
- Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives about us
- Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives nonprofit explorer profile
- Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives full filing 2022
- POCC Internship home
- Charis Bible College home
- Truth and Liberty Derrick Wilburn Are Black Voters Shifting Conservative
- Spreaker Derrick Wilburn Changing Perspectives with Truth
- Spreaker Derrick Wilburn on Black Conservatives and More
- Spreaker The Truth and Liberty Show with Richard Harris Bishop E W Jackson and Derrick Wilburn
- State GOP vice chair Derrick Wilburn says he won't be seeking top party post
- What does it mean to be a Black conservative in Colorado?
- Ep. 4 - Back to Our FAITH, Back to Winning (Derrick Wilburn)
- Student Led Academy District 20 - Board of Education Candidate Forum
- Lawlessness Exposed with Dave Illingworth and Derrick Wilburn
- Board of Education Special Meeting - Jan 08 2026 Minutes
- Board of Education Regular Meeting - Jan 08 2026 Minutes
- Board of Education Study Session - Jan 08 2026 Minutes
- Board of Education Spring Retreat - Mar 12 2026
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- Board of Education Regular Meeting - Mar 12 2026
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- Special Board Meeting - January 28, 2026 Minutes
- Regular Board Meeting - March 4, 2026
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- 70872.html
- 70013.html
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- 71963.pdf
- Regular Board of Education Meeting - Oct 09 2025 Minutes
- Minutes October 22, 2025
- Regular Board of Education Meeting - Jan 16 2026 Minutes
- Regular Board of Education Meeting - Mar 12 2026
- Regular Board of Education Meeting - Apr 09 2026
- 24018.pdf
- 24919.html
- 24920.pdf
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- 14597.pdf
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- Weld RE-4 Google Docs board-material recapture batch
- 2026-01-08-special-meeting-agenda-1n9ka4ua.txt
- 2026-01-08-special-meeting-minutes-1jjm1h0u.txt
- 2026-01-09-retreat-agenda-15dh06qv.txt
- 2026-01-09-retreat-minutes-1xr6mk93.txt
- 2026-01-12-regular-meeting-agenda-1hlr2w97.txt
- 2026-01-12-regular-meeting-minutes-1tu9wwge.txt
- 2026-02-02-work-session-agenda-1ucp1yli.txt
- 2026-02-02-special-meeting-minutes-1tom0qge.txt
- 2026-02-09-regular-meeting-agenda-1osjvk0y.txt
- 2026-02-09-regular-meeting-minutes-12wljf9h.txt
- 2026-03-02-special-meeting-agenda-1bzykuk.txt
- 2026-03-02-special-meeting-minutes-12f-84es.txt
- 2026-03-09-regular-meeting-agenda-1b5zdhje.txt
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- Special Board of Education Meeting - Jan 06 2026 Minutes
- Special Board of Education Meeting - Jan 26 2026 Minutes
- Special Board of Education Meeting - Jan 30 2026 Minutes
- Regular Board of Education Meeting - Feb 19 2026 Minutes
- 17902.pdf
- Board of Education Work Session - Apr 09 2026
- 18323.html
- 18324.pdf
- Special Board Meeting 02-18-26 Minutes
- Special Board Meeting 02-23-26
- Regular Board Meeting 03-11-26 Minutes
- Special Board Meeting 03-12-26 Minutes
- Special Board Meeting 03-16-26 Minutes
- Regular Board Meeting 04-08-26
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