Employees

Juaquin is the Associate Director of College Guidance Albuquerque Academy. He was the founding Executive Director of Horizons Albuquerque, a nonprofit transformative, tuition-free educational [...]

Joannie Suina is an EcoFeminist Indigenous scholar from the Pueblo of Cochiti, NM whose works seeks to illuminate the importance of Matriarchal roles as the center of healthy and regenerative [...]

Michelle Duronslet is a Project Manager with New Mexico Community Capital.  She joined NMCC in March 2021 in support of the Equality Can’t Wait Challenge, and continues to work with NMCC on [...]

Hillary Frost is an entrepreneur, social media personality, background actress, D.J. (ill audia), a mother, and member of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe. The past 10 years, she has been growing [...]

Nate Francis is from Albuquerque, NM, growing up in the Four Corners Region, his family originating from the Tewa speaking pueblo people of New Mexico and Arizona. Nate is a self-taught graphic [...]

Jeff Atencio (Ohkay Owingeh, Pueblo of Laguna) is from the New Mexico Pueblos of Ohkay Owingeh and Laguna. He has over 20 years of experience working for Pueblos and municipal government, as well [...]

Lauren (Jicarilla Apache, San Carlos Apache, Diné, Pueblo of Laguna) has been an Office Intern with New Mexico Community Capital Organization since August of 2020. They are a two-spirited, gender [...]

Deezbaa Andrea O’Hare is of Diné (Navajo), Shoshone, Paiute, Ute and Irish-Swedish ancestry. She has worked with many change-making organizations that revitalize Native lifeways and foodways, are [...]

Lakhana Peou is a Business Development Consultant at New Mexico Community Capital (NMCC) and focuses on fundraising. She previously served as Director of Health and Wellness at the Notah Begay [...]

Born and raised on the Navajo Nation, it is the wisdom of her homelands that shapes Jaclyn Roessel’s cosmovision. Experience as a museum professional, cultural arts producer and curator confirmed [...]