Yolanda Avila

Avila served as the District 4 Colorado Springs City Councilmember and on the Colorado Springs Utilities Board from 2017 to 2025, per her campaign site. She is a 1985 graduate of Colorado College who worked as a criminal defense investigator with the Orange County, California Public Defender's Office beginning in 1990, and has lived with a degenerative eye condition, retinitis pigmentosa, since a 1998 diagnosis, per her campaign site.