Javier Alberto Soto
The Denver Foundation
President & CEO
Javier Alberto Soto serves as president and CEO of The Denver Foundation, a community foundation that deploys philanthropy, civic leadership, and community investment to improve the quality of life in Metro Denver.
Since joining the foundation in the fall of 2019, Javier has led the development of a strategic framework for the organization and the mobilization of significant resources to help the area respond to the COVID-19 crisis. Javier also embarked on a bike tour of Metro Denver, cycling through all of Denver’s 78 neighborhoods while convening community leaders to discuss issues of importance to them along the way.
A lifelong learner, Javier has a B.A. in History and Political Science from Florida State University, a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and received an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Colorado Denver in 2024.