Dem NM Primary Election & Fighting Child Poverty

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor talks to Source New Mexico Editor Shaun Griswold and freelance reporter Justin Horwath about how voters could reshape the state’s Democratic Party during this summer’s primary elections.

Senior producer Lou DiVizio sits down with both chairwomen of Albuquerque’s Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Commission to discuss the group’s first year.

Correspondent Antonia Gonzales looks back at 20 years of UNM’s Native American Studies Department with a professor and an alumna. They discuss the program and its impacts in local and national indigenous communities.

Gabrielle Uballez, the new executive director of New Mexico Voices for Children, talks to correspondent Russell Contreras about her work searching for new solutions to child poverty and why she wanted to take the issue on.

Host: Jeff Proctor

Segments: 
Progressive Candidates Challenge Incumbents in June Primary Elections 
Correspondent: Jeff Proctor 
Guests: Shaun Griswold, Editor, Source New Mexico 
Justin Horwath, Freelance Reporter 

Albuquerque’s Domestic Violence Commission Looks Ahead to its Second Year 
Correspondent: Lou DiVizio 
Guests: Teresa Garcia, Co-Chair, Albuquerque’s Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Commission 
Chearie Allipat, Co-Chair, Albuquerque’s Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Commission 

Twenty Years of UNM’s Native American Studies Department 
Correspondent: Antonia Gonzales (Navajo) 
Guests: Tiffany Lee (Diné /Lakota), Chair and Professor, UNM Native American Studies Department 
Rebekah Horsechief (Osage/Pawnee), Alumna 

Fighting Child Poverty in NM 
Correspondent: Russell Contreras 
Guest: Gabrielle Uballez, Executive Director, New Mexico Voices for Children