The Transformation Network

Join us on Zoom for our spring speaker series kickoff! Dr. Kevin Lombard and his students from are sharing about the creation of a documentary on the Gold King Mine Spill. Feb 27th at 2pm!

Coming up this Friday!

Join us over Zoom on November 18th from 2-3 pm for our November Speaker Series. Drs. Tommy Rock and Vasiliki Karanikola will be presenting on the importance of community led projects and how community-based research questions are derived through this work.

As part of our water and fireshed symposium, State Forester Laura McCarthy gave an incredible talk on some of the climate issues facing New Mexico and how we can adapt to our changing reality.

Come see us at Valle Del Oro today for the Build Your Backyard Refuge event! 9:30-1.

You’re invited to join us on the UNM campus for an exciting opportunity to learn more about Participatory Budgeting in Albuquerque.

Some times it’s the small things that remind us that it’s a beautiful world we live in.

We took a trip with some of our TN funded graduate students to help take water samples in the Santa Fe Watershed. Will and Sa’angna and Jaz do the trek every month to collect samples that could help inform management practices for the watershed. They are doing some amazing and difficult work.

Looks like a great event from members of the TN at the Center for Science Teaching and Learning - Northern Arizona University!

We had a great time participating in NMSU Farmington ASC's Annual Field Day on June 27! This was a great opportunity for members of different TN universities to meet in person and connect with community members. The TN hosted an informational table and seed ball making activity. Thanks to the NMSU team for hosting this wonderful event! 🌾🚜🌱

Congratulations to Cassidy Tawse-Garcia, who won the Rural Geography Specialty Group's Student Paper Presentation Award for her talk, “Crisis Geographies: Placed-Based Mutual Aid in New Mexico,” at last month's American Association of Geographers conference! Cassidy is a TN-funded PhD student at The University of New Mexico - UNM.

Grad student highlight! Griselda Landa-Posas earned her B.S. degree in Wildlife & Conservation Biology along with a minor in Ethnic Studies. She has worked for the National Park Service in Alaska and Florida. Additionally, she has worked for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in Oregon and for Environment for the Americas, a non-profit based in Boulder, CO. Most recently she served as a Water & Land Steward with Colorado Open Lands.

Her interests as a scholar include Ecological Restoration and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge which aligns well with the Indigenous Land & Data Stewards Lab. Griselda’s parents are from the southernmost migration route of the Monarch butterflies in rural Michoacán, Mexico, where she spent a lot of her time as a child. Her family is partially descendent from the Purépecha people which is where her passion for working with indigenous communities stems from and another reason she felt her background aligned well with the Indigenous Land & Data Stewards Lab.