Noah Kaplan

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Noah Kaplan

Nonpartisan

Elections and appointments

Last election

April 4, 2023

Education

High school

East High School

Personal

Profession

Teacher

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Noah Kaplan ran for election to the Denver City Council to represent District 10 in Colorado. Kaplan lost in the general election on April 4, 2023.

Kaplan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Noah Kaplan's professional experience includes working as a teacher, journalist, and community organizer.

Elections

2023

See also: City elections in Denver, Colorado (2023)

General runoff election

General runoff election for Denver City Council District 10

Incumbent Christopher Hinds defeated Shannon Hoffman in the general runoff election for Denver City Council District 10 on June 6, 2023.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Christopher Hinds (Nonpartisan)	55.4	9,162
		Shannon Hoffman (Nonpartisan)	44.6	7,390

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 16,552
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General election

General election for Denver City Council District 10

Incumbent Christopher Hinds and Shannon Hoffman advanced to a runoff. They defeated Noah Kaplan and Margie Morris in the general election for Denver City Council District 10 on April 4, 2023.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Christopher Hinds (Nonpartisan)	35.6	6,045
✔		Shannon Hoffman (Nonpartisan)	27.1	4,599
		Noah Kaplan (Nonpartisan)	25.7	4,364
		Margie Morris (Nonpartisan)	11.7	1,989

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 16,997
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Matthew Watkajtys (Nonpartisan)

Campaign themes

2023

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Noah Kaplan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kaplan's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Noah Kaplan was born and raised by public defenders in central Denver, attending Denver Public Schools and graduating from East High School. He went on to earn a Bachelor’s in Education from Colorado State University before returning to DPS as a teacher in 2015, where he directed East High School’s nationally renowned speech and debate program until 2022. He helped hundreds of Denver families from many backgrounds engage with complex civic issues and civil debate, leading advancing speech and debate students to the National Championship. As a teacher, he learned that the classroom is a powerful laboratory for building community, and as a city councilman he aims to bring those same fundamentals to government. Because of Denver's affordability challenges, Noah worked nights as a freelance journalist covering city hall, the environment, and criminal justice for local publications. As a contributor, Noah developed the right questions to get to the heart of many issues facing Denver. As an educator, he understood the work did not stop at the school. He began working on mental health and environment issues with Denver youth and Denver's unhoused community. He believes city leaders should have strong communication skills, street level experience with diverse backgrounds connecting policy to the people, and the ability to build broad coalitions, producing coordinated and evidence-based solutions to homelessness, affordability, public safety, and challenges facing Denver's kids.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Affordable Housing - As a lifelong resident of this city, I have a practical and homegrown approach to preserving the charm of our neighborhoods, while providing for the necessary housing options along multi-modal transportation routes that will afford a next generation of Denver workers and their families a chance to build a life in our city.
• Homelessness - I am the only candidate with experience working in encampments and a pragmatic and compassionate approach that balances the needs of our community to address public health and safety on day one.
• Denver Kids - My experience as a classroom teacher has afforded me a perspective on the abdicated responsibility that the city has to take care of the social, physical, and emotional wellbeing of its kids in the hours before and after school. We must do better to provide for the necessary supports and programs to reduce youth violence, give hope, purpose, and community to our young people.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

We need to improve public health and safety outcomes and build stronger relationships and trust with law enforcement. Denver must create better coordination and data sharing between behavioral and mental health service providers and law enforcement, acknowledging the complexity and necessity of their service, and the need to mitigate harm in our communities. If we invest in training, create transparency, and hold each other accountable, we will create better mental health services for residents and officers, and have stronger recruitment. Because when we create community engagement, an approach to public safety that is comprehensive and collaborative, we can become a model for world class civil servants in Denver.

We have to encourage the best possible relationship with our law enforcement officers, build on successful but incomplete reforms, expand co-responder initiatives, increase trust and emphasis on protection and service, with a de-emphasis on criminalization.

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