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Born in Long Beach, CA, Barbara holds a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology. She is in private counseling practice, and leads workshops on using creativity in the self discovery process. Barbara sings regularly at the "Purple Rose" restaurant. She is married to Isaac. They share their life with a Cockatoo. Barbara is the founder of the Taos Bird Club and a co-founder of "Women You Want to Know", a women's networking organization.
Ronald Lee Urban is the owner of the Taos restaurant Ronnie Lee's Supper Club and the Blue Moon Art Gallery. He is also a minister of the United Church of Religious Science and has been involved with the community since moving to Taos in 2002. He has been a member of the Taos Project group representing the Dona Luz merchants and on the Taos Plaza Live team since 2003. Ron is a past board member and president of the Humane Society of Marion Co. Florida. He has been a volunteer worker with a special Big Brother program and worked with a group of physically disabled adults called "The Handicapables". He also helped arrange summer conferences for his church in the eastern part of the US and was a television spokesperson in Marion County to help find homes for cats and dogs from the local shelter.
Jeff
Jordy, Treasurer
Jeff
has over 18 years experience in non-profit and for-profit accounting and
finance in a variety of industries. He is currently Finance Director
for Rocky Mountain Youth Corps, a non-profit youth development organization
in Taos. Jeff has undergraduate and graduate degrees in business
for College of William and Mary in Virginia. He has formerly served
on the boards fro local animal welfare organizations. He maintains
an active animal communication practice to assist people and their animals,
and is in the process of establishing a sanctuary for animals in the Taos
area. Jeff lives in Taos with his wife Leslie, a second grade teacher,
and their three school-aged children.
Joleen
Montoya
Dye
Joleen is the Executive Director and founder of Evolving
Creative Opportunities (ECO) Arts Center in Taos, NM. Joleen's work
experience includes working as a development associate of the Rocky Mountain
Youth Corps, the Taos Film Commission, and as Grants Manager at the Taos
Community Foundation. Joleen has a strong background in youth development
working with such organizations as Early Academic Outreach, GirlTime,
Taos Community Foundation's Youth Advisory Committee and the Taos Teen
Council. Joleen serves on the Board of Directors for The DreamTree
Project, Taos County Economic Development Corporation and NGO New Mexico.
Eileen Kalinowski
Eileen was a high school and middle school teacher for many years in the Boston area. She also has spent several years in health education, helping adults and kids grapple with issues around sexuality, alcohol and drugs (including tobacco) and wellness. She came to Taos on a Wurlitzer Foundation residency in creative writing and never went back to New England. For the last three years, she has been singing, producing a CD of her music, "Yesterday's Rain, " free lance writing for the Taos News, and working in Human Resources at Centinel Bank and as a member of the Taos Coalition to End Homelessness. She has one adult daughter, Jessica, who lives in Boston.
Vivian Santistevan
Vivian Santistevan was born and raised in Taos, NM and is the daughter of the late Mayor Lawrence A. Santistevan. Vivian attended New Mexico Highlands University where she graduated with a Master of Arts degree and her commission as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. She served thirteen years on Active Duty tours around the world until her return to her beloved home town of Taos eight years ago. In her civilian career, Vivian has established herself as a Human Resources professional working for various local businesses and recently opened her own Human Resources consulting company. Vivian continues to serve her country as a Major in the Army Reserves and enjoys volunteering as a choir director for Our Lady of Guadalupe Church and as a steering committee member for the Taos Coalition to End Homelessness. She is married to Rob Vaccarella, a Major in the Air Force Reserves. They enjoy spending their time with their two four-legged children, Angelita and Faith and working on their ninety year old adobe home and yard in Taos.
CiCi Kirlin
Shirley Norton
Advisory Board
Beth
Enson
Fundraiser, poet, mother. Serves as Fundraising Committee
Chair on the Board of the Northern NM Women's Health and Birth Center.
Born in Brooklyn, NY.
John
Day
John is a lawyer practicing in Santa Fe and Taos with the
firm of Rothstein, Donatelli, Hughes, Dahlstrom & Schoenburg, LLP.
He served as deputy district attorney for Taos County from 1996-2000.
He has served on the boards of a number of local non-profits. He
was born in Washington, DC and received a bachelor's degree in History
from Harvard University and a law degree from the University of New Mexico.
Miriam
Foronda
Born and raised in NYC, parents from Central America. Has
lived in Taos for ten years. Taught computer science publicly and privately
for 21 years. Currently assists low income, 19 and over, first generation
immigrants to attend post secondary school as an educational advisor at
the Educational Opportunity Center of Taos. Has been an artist for 29
years. Single mom raising two kids.
Stuart
R. Hamilton
Stuart was born and raised in Santa Fe. He has a BS in
Agriculture with emphasis in wildlife science, NMSU in Las Cruces, 1988
and an MBA, NMSU in Las Cruces, 1991. He is the President-elect of Pilot
Club of Santa Fe, a service organization specializing in brain and spinal
cord injuries and President of Santa Fe Kiwanis Club.
Elton
Moy
Elton L. Moy was born and raised in a farming and ranching
family in South Texas. He lived and worked on the San Antonio Riverwalk
in the 1980's, owned and operated the 'Crosswalk Deli & Catering Co.'
for 10 years on ALamo Plaza. He has lived in Taos for the last five years
and has been involved with the Dream Tree Project most of that time. He
currently works in the hospitality industry in Taos and enjoys skiing,
hiking and community awareness.
Elaine
Romero
Domestic Violence Advocate, Tribal Court, Taos Pueblo Tribal
Court.
Member
National Indian Child Welfare Association, New Mexico Domestic Violence
Coalition, and Taos County Interagency Family Violence Council.
John
W. Szerdi,
Born
11/29/52 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, John has a Masters of Architecture,
from Un iversity of Florida, 1977. He has been a General Contractor
since 1977, an Architect since 1979 in Florida and an Architect since
1999 in New Mexico. John has been working in Taos since 1997.
He is the past board chairman of Children's Home Society of Florida Intercoastal
Division from 1997-98. John is married to Jamey Lynn Heuser and
they have 3 Children - Joelle, Jaclyn, John. John loves Fishing,
Skiing, Painting, Drawing, and Working out.
