LEADERSHIP & STAFF

PUBLIC ALLIES NEW MEXICO LEADERSHIP

Vanessa Apodaca, Program Director

Vanessa Apodaca serves as the Public Allies New Mexico (PANM) Program Director and is a member of the University of New Mexico Community Engagement Center (CEC) staff who direct and manage PANM. For over three years the CEC staff – who include Akila Ravichandran, Magdalena Dathe, Kiran Katira and Gabriela Hubbart – have been directing and managing the Public Allies program. The UNM CEC staff have a collective of over 40 years of collaborating with community partners in New Mexico to facilitate the leadership development of local people of color to serve in community based projects and in promoting racial justice and un-doing racism in the states institutions.