2025 Keynote Speaker

Margaret Koch was born in La Junta, Colorado and raised in Cheraw, Colorado on her family’s deer farm. Margaret grew up doing farmwork, pouring concrete, welding, surveying the land for proper water drainage, and assisting her father building steel buildings for the farm, for friends, and for family. Margaret attended the inaugural Girls in the Middle Conference in 1999. She is excited to return home to encourage young girls to push through their fear and the uncomfortable experiences of life, and you can achieve anything! YOU can do hard things!

Margaret has always had a passion for helping others. During her first year of college at OJC she obtained her EMT-B and joined the La Junta Fire Department as a volunteer. This ignited her passion for helping others during some of life’s most stressful and challenging times. She has worked as an Emergency Department Nurse for nearly 18 years, never losing her passion for bringing comfort to people on their darkest day. She spent nearly 10 years at Memorial Hospital University of Colorado Health in Colorado Springs, which is where she first discovered a new passion for mentoring others. Being able to combine her passion for mentoring others and her expertise in Emergency Medicine has been a dream come true. Margarets next goal is to become the first Dr. Koch in her family!  She is enjoying her continual journey of education and training that is allowing her Dreams to take Flight!!

Lets get excited to meet Margaret on March 1st at 2025 Girls in the Middle!!