Jaime Gardner of Yuma, CO, joined Novitas Communications in Denver, CO, in September of 2021 as Business Development and Communications Director, and became Executive Vice President in March of 2025. She has owned High Plains Communications, LLC (HPC) since 2008, a small consulting firm based in Eastern Colorado, specializing in a wide variety of services, including communications and public relations consulting, as well as community relations/outreach, and regulatory consulting, and also manages the mom blog, Juggling Normal.

Gardner has over 25 years’ experience working in the public and private sector. For eight years she was Executive Director of the Colorado Resource Alliance, a membership-based regulatory monitoring service serving counties, trade associations, individuals and companies interested in natural resource policy. She organized and administered the Front Range Energy Career Expo, a high school energy education and college/career fair event, in 2009 and 2010, and briefly served as Executive Director of the Houston-based Consumer Energy Education Foundation, providing energy education for middle school and high school students as well as Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) based scholarship opportunities, in 2013.

Prior to that, Gardner worked in a variety of positions for the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management, both in Colorado and Washington, DC. Jaime has worked in the Office of the Secretary of the Interior and the Office of the Director of the Burea of Land Management (BLM), and was a Public Information Officer for BLM in the Colorado State Office, covering issues in recreation, energy, Congressional and state government relations, community relations, and law enforcement.  During her time in Washington, Jaime managed the Secretary’s Office of Alaska Affairs. Early in her career, Gardner worked as a project manager and “troubleshooter” for Lucent Technologies, both in Denver, Colorado and Huizen, Netherlands.