Biography
Ryden graduated from the University of Denver in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in mass communications. She worked for marketing firms in Denver, Colorado, San Diego, California, Pensacola, Florida, and Norfolk, Virginia while her husband, Jerome, served in the U.S. Navy. The couple worked briefly as freelance photojournalists before returning to Colorado in 1974 and founding Ryden & Associates, a marketing firm.
Ryden has served on the boards of the Denver Rotary Club Foundation, the Aurora Historic Preservation Commission, Leadership Aurora and the Aurora Fox Arts Center. She has also worked on the Colorado Kids 1st license plate campaign and the soberRide campaign against drunk driving.
In 2004, Ryden received the Randolph P. McDonough Award for service to alumni of the University of Denver. In 2005, she received the Aurora Chamber’s Women in Business “Unsung Hero” Award and the Elizabeth Johnson Award for her work in the field of historic preservation.
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