Born in New York City, and raised there and in London and Switzerland, Riva loves where he lives now best of all: Gila, New Mexico. As creator of over 78 hours of primetime wildlife television, he spent a ton of time in parts of Africa, helped found a film history museum in Berlin, worked for […]
Ms. Ortiz Uribe writes about diversity and inequality for the El Paso Times and the USA Today network. She’s also a longtime contributor to National Public Radio. Born and raised on the U.S./Mexico border, Mónica straddles two countries, two cultures, and two languages both personally and professionally. Her first nationally broadcast story was about the […]
Historian, Professor of History and Humanities at Eastern New Mexico University, Ruidoso, she is the author of No Mexicans, Women or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, the University of Texas’ best-selling academic book between 2010 and 2020; Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas […]
Kris Neri’s latest novel, Hopscotch Life, a quirky, offbeat crime novel-women’s fiction crossover, recently won the second of Kris’s New Mexico-Arizona Book Award wins. She also writes the Tracy Eaton mysteries and the Samantha Brennan and Annabelle Haggerty magical mysteries, three of which were honored with Lefty Award nominations for humor, along with being finalists […]
An intercultural psychotherapist, anthropologist and ethnographer living in the UK, she lost her heart to the land of enchantment while doing PhD research on culture, mental health and post-colonial relations around the Navajo Nation, where the vast landscapes, hospitality and humor remind her of the country of her birth, Iran. Multicultural and multilingual, Katayoun is […]
A lifelong outdoorsman, Loeffler has hiked extensively, camping throughout the American West and Mexico, and has rafted many rivers. He has supported himself as a self-styled aural historian visiting and often living in native villages and academic and scientific communities conducting interviews and recording music and lore as well as diverse habitats. Using his recordings, […]
We respectfully acknowledge that the entirety of southwestern New Mexico is the traditional territory, since time immemorial, of the Chis-Nde, also known as the people of the Chiricahua Apache Nation. The Chiricahua Apache Nation is recognized as a sovereign Native Nation by the United States in the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Friendship of 1 July 1852 (10 Stat. 979) (Treaty of Santa Fe ratified 23 March 1853 and proclaimed by President Franklin Pierce 25 March 1853).