Edna Alvarado
Her leadership and innovation was born of necessity, with the ferocity and resolve that only a mother knows. Eran sus hijos los que desesperadamente necesitaban ayuda. It was her bright growing boys who desperately needed help.
Lives Changed
How do you change the world? One life at a time. Then that person carries it forward, and you know the rest. Here are just a few examples, from thousands.
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Jon Anderson
In nearly four decades of exceptional productivity since graduating from the School, Jon Anderson has become a renowned architect who has worked on projects worldwide but always returns to the unfiltered, brightly lit elements that define New Mexico.
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Tischa Becker
It’s 86 miles on a dirt road, or 146 miles on the pavement, from Albuquerque to the Alamo Navajo reservation. It’s an isolated community, and the people look out for each other and learn to depend on themselves. Tischa Becker knows the road by heart.
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Dr. Jodi Casados
Jodi Casados grew up in a tiny New Mexico town, Tierra Amarilla, camping, riding horses, living a simple life. She saw firsthand how difficult it was to get and keep a physician in an area where 12 small communities account for barely 3,000 people.
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The Enos Family
It’s impossible to fully understand until it happens to you: Your child faces a potentially life-threatening problem. First comes the shock and the fear, then comes the question of where to turn and who can you trust.
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James Gutierrez
Perhaps the days have more hours in the world James Gutierrez is busily changing. How else to explain how this young UNM College of Arts and Sciences alumnus manages to accomplish everything he does, as well as he does, as fast as he does?
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The Keleher Family
Will Keleher was an avid, thorough and detail-oriented historian. He collected one-of-a-kind material, and the Keleher family thought it would be best to place their father’s collection at UNM, where it can be of use to all.
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Khoi Le and Olena Dziuba
Two Anderson graduates, emblematic of the diversity and drive of the UNM learning community, see their vision for a start-up company win the $10,000 prize in the UNM Technology Business Plan Competition.
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Robert Medina
The ancient and the modern are always engaged in a complicated dance at Zia Pueblo. Robert Medina, Zia Pueblo’s first-ever tribal judge trained as a lawyer, is one of the new tribal leaders pointing the way to the future.
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Bill Miera
Bill Miera put himself through UNM School of Engineering, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering, with a concentration in robotics. Along the way, he was shown that not even the sky was the limit.
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Kelly Donahue-Wallace
When Kelly Donahue-Wallace arrived at UNM College of Fine Arts, she immediately caught the research bug. It changed her life. Before long, she was on her way to her master’s degree. Kelly has never forgotten the new worlds that were opened to her at UNM.
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Kristyn Yepa
Nursing has immense power to change lives and change worlds—and no form of it more so than community health nursing, which expands the caring and advocacy roles of the nurse to include the entire community as the patient.