Published Stories

“There’s not a lot of Filipinos in New Mexico, so to be around a lot of girls who have a similar culture as I do, it just feels like I’m back home because we all talk the same language, we all eat the same food, we all basically think the same way.” Read more

Ramona Emerson has been telling stories her whole life. As a Navajo woman, she says telling stories is in her blood and an important part of her heritage. She’s been making films for over 20 years, telling the stories of her community, and now helping train the next generation of Indigenous storytellers. Read more

“There is so much unknown that it made it hard for them to progress with their senior year as they normally would. We’ve been chasing down answers, trying to find opportunities, trying to open doors and it seemed like every day, something was changing. A lot of our students shut down.” Read more

César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, an activist from northern New Mexico, are known for leading a movement to bring better working conditions and civil rights to farm and migrant workers, a movement still on-going today in New Mexico’s own farm-working communities. Read more

“My job is to make sure the performers feel safe and are able to focus on what they need to do in the scene. I work with how they work, whether that’s something more improvisational or something more heavily choreographed.” Read more

“Now I have friends, it’s a social thing. You get out among similar types of people and then you start sharing what works and what doesn’t work. It just opens so many doors.” Read more