After college, I began my westward journey from Upstate NY and settled in Albuquerque’s Parkland Hills Neighborhood in 1991, where I still reside. My background in social work, political science, medicine, and public health fuels my advocacy efforts. Alongside my community involvement, I’m an outdoor enthusiast, passionate about learning New Mexico’s geology, birds, and plants. I’m also mom to a feline who is definitely on the spectrum and several tortoises who are active in my backyard in warm weather months.