We’re celebrating the positive impact women have throughout Castle Rock this month. Let’s meet Gina Anguiano and Jacque Northrup.
Gina Anguiano - Founder of Live Free Association
Between Gina Anguiano’s work for her non-profit organization, Live Free Association, the Women of the Workforce (WOW), Run to Change Lives, and her 200K Instagram following, she keeps busy helping those in need around the Castle Rock community.
In regard to the Run to Change Lives, Gina explains, “Proceeds go to different organizations. Turkey Trot goes to help the Hope Center, and Shamrock and Rocket Run go to It’s A Calling Foundation.”
She continues, “It’s A Calling Foundation works with families where their husbands or wives were in the police force and passed away. Our money provides their families with counseling.”
When she’s not supporting charities, Gina supports women with her good friend, Inger Hiller, through the Women of the Workforce (WOW) organization they’ve built.
“I really just wanted to start a new group,” she explains. “It could just be the ladies of Castle Rock. It’s grown. We are up to 5,000 ladies.”
“Honestly, my goal is just to connect women,” she says. “I want to see women succeed. I want to help with their business, help them grow.”
Jacque Northrup, Director of Women’s Services at AdventHealth Castle Rock
Colorado native, Jacque Northrup, understands the impact of living and working in Castle Rock.
“I love serving the community that I live in,” she explains. “And the hospital is just an extension of that community.”
With a background as a labor and delivery nurse, Jacque’s position as the Director of Women’s Services at AdventHealth Castle Rock fell into her lap in 2019.
“There is a huge amount of respect between my employees and me, and it goes both ways,” she emphasizes. “It’s hard to find, but when you do, it’s amazing.”
Her world was turned upside down in 2024 when her son, Garrett, was in a horrific car accident, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Spending countless hours with him at Craig Hospital in Denver, Jacque remained committed to her job and family during the hardest time of her life.
“He has such a wonderful outlook,” she explains. “He always says he might not have the same opportunities he used to have, but maybe he will have even better ones now.”
Her greatest accomplishment is watching nurse residents achieve their goals and stay on at the hospital for years afterward.
Jacque explains, “One of the nurse residents came up to me recently and asked, ‘How’s Garret?’ I was like, ‘How did you know?’ She said, ‘I went to high school with him.’ It was such a huge moment knowing that this person had gone to school with my son, and now I am training them to be a nurse. It’s just a full circle moment.”
“I want to see women succeed. I want to help with their business, help them grow,” says Gina.
“I love serving the community that I live in,” she explains. “And the hospital is just an extension of that community,” says Jacque.