¶ Derrick Wilburn direct-source profile and institutional ties
This source cluster compiles the strongest direct currently ingested records for Derrick Wilburn, centered on nonprofit self-description, RMBC filing records, Colorado TRACER candidate records, Charis Bible College program materials, and repeated Truth & Liberty show appearances.
This is a mixed but relatively strong direct-source cluster. Its core is made up of RMBC and POCC self-description pages, ProPublica nonprofit records, Colorado TRACER candidate data, Charis institutional pages and catalog PDF, and dated Truth & Liberty platform pages or episode mirrors. The cluster is stronger for institutional ties, program affiliations, and public-facing campaign identifiers than for broader influence or coordination claims.
- RMBC's own site identifies Derrick Wilburn as founder and executive director and describes him as the driving force behind POC Capitol Interns.
- The POCC about-us page states directly that POC Capitol Interns is an outreach of Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives; no separate POCC nonprofit board is resolved in this source set.
- RMBC's fiscal year
2024 Form 990-EZ Part IV lists Robert Blaha, Adam Brandon, Brad Miller, Jon Macomber, Nathan O'Neal, and Derrick Wilburn as officers, directors, trustees, and key employees. It lists Wilburn as executive director at 40.00 average hours per week and $94,400 reportable compensation.
- Colorado TRACER identifies Wilburn as a 2023 Academy 20 school-board candidate and links him directly to candidate committee
ELECT DERRICK WILBURN (20235045488), with KRISTINE GAROFALO listed as registered agent.
- Charis Bible College's Practical Government page describes the program as training students to impact government from a biblical worldview and identifies Richard Harris as its director and as executive director of Truth & Liberty.
- The Charis 2023-2024 catalog supports an instructor-list role for Wilburn in the Practical Government environment, alongside roster-level ties involving Richard Harris, Mark Cowart, and Andrew Wommack.
- Wilburn's Church Voter Guides questionnaire preserves a self-description claim that he taught original curriculum for the School of Practical Government at Charis Bible College. Together, the catalog and questionnaire support an instructor-list / curriculum-teaching role, not payroll terms, contract terms, current status after the captured period, or institutional authority.
- Truth & Liberty and Spreaker pages show repeated Wilburn appearances in 2019, 2022, and 2024, including direct co-appearances with Richard Harris and, in one episode, Pastor Mark Cowart.
- The district-hosted
2023-10-13 candidate forum is a direct record of Wilburn's school-library-book reading performance in front of students and families, which later becomes a central flashpoint in D20 reporting, chat fallout, and litigation.
- A 2023 Heidi Ganahl interview adds a direct source for Wilburn's explicit church-engagement and Christian political-mobilization rhetoric tied to Colorado school politics.
- A 2026 Truth & Liberty episode with attorney Dave Illingworth adds a direct source for how Wilburn publicly narrates the D20 book-reading controversy and later
Wilburn v. Guthrie litigation.
- Supporting reporting from Colorado Politics and CPR helps confirm that Wilburn was already publicly framed as a Colorado GOP and black-conservative figure before the later D20 conflicts.
- Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives -> Derrick Wilburn: founder and executive director, from RMBC self-description.
- POC Capitol Interns -> Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives: outreach relationship, from POCC about-us; do not treat POCC as a separate nonprofit board without a separate legal or governance source.
- POC Capitol Interns -> Derrick Wilburn: RMBC self-description says Wilburn is the driving force behind the program.
- Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives ->
Robert Blaha, Adam Brandon, Brad Miller, Jon Macomber, Nathan O'Neal, and Derrick Wilburn: fiscal year 2024 Form 990-EZ Part IV roster relationship, with roles as listed in the filing.
Elect Derrick Wilburn -> Derrick Wilburn: candidate committee relationship, from Colorado TRACER.- Practical Government School -> Charis Bible College: host-program relationship, from Charis institutional pages.
- Truth & Liberty -> Practical Government School: Richard Harris tie, from Charis Practical Government page.
- Derrick Wilburn -> Truth & Liberty: repeated guest appearances, from Truth & Liberty and Spreaker episode pages.
KRISTINE GAROFALO -> Elect Derrick Wilburn: registered-agent tie in TRACER.RICHARD HARRIS -> Practical Government School / Truth & Liberty: direct role description from Charis page.MARK COWART -> Practical Government School: direct roster role in the catalog and co-appearance with Wilburn on a 2022 episode.ANDREW WOMMACK -> Charis Bible College: direct institutional leadership presence in the catalog, but Wilburn's tie to Wommack is still mainly institutional overlap through Charis rather than a separately documented direct working relationship.ACADEMY DISTRICT 20 -> Derrick Wilburn: the district-hosted October 2023 candidate forum directly preserves Wilburn's public book-reading performance in the D20 election setting.HEIDI GANAHL -> Derrick Wilburn: 2023 interview-based co-appearance and shared Christian-political framing, but not by itself proof of a stronger formal relationship.DAVE ILLINGWORTH -> Derrick Wilburn: 2026 Truth & Liberty co-appearance tied directly to Wilburn's defamation litigation.
AMY SHANDY: appears in adjacent D20 campaign material, but this pass does not add a stronger formal tie to Wilburn beyond contextual co-appearance in the same election environment.LAWSON PERDUE: the Charis Christian Center page is part of the same ecosystem but does not create a stronger direct Wilburn relationship on its own.ROBERT BLAHA, ADAM BRANDON, BRAD MILLER, JON MACOMBER, NATHAN O'NEAL: now have a narrow RMBC fiscal year 2024 filing-roster relationship. This does not by itself establish POCC-specific board service, campaign coordination, funding flows, or operational control.
¶ Evidence limits and open questions
- RMBC, POCC, Charis, Join Our America, and Church Voter Guides are all self-descriptive or questionnaire-style sources. They are valuable for stated roles and affiliations, but they are not independent verification of broader claims.
- The Charis catalog and Church Voter Guides source support an instructor-list / curriculum-teaching role for Wilburn, not payroll terms, contract terms, current status after the captured period, or organizational hierarchy claims.
- RMBC's
2024 Schedule L reports an interested-person loan entry involving Wilburn and described as Error in payroll disbursements; the rendered text extraction does not cleanly preserve the loan-direction checkbox placement, so direction and repayment mechanics remain unresolved.
- Truth & Liberty and Spreaker pages support appearance and co-appearance claims, not stronger coordination or employment claims.
- The forum, Ganahl, and 2026 Truth & Liberty videos are useful direct speech records, but they still reflect event-stage or platform context more than independent verification of every surrounding claim.
- The current source set sharpens Wilburn's direct institutional footprint, but broader dark-money or church-outreach claims still need more primary backing than this pass provides.