2025 Cohort 

Adrianna Fragozo is a Transportation Planner pursuing a Ph.D. in Transportation and Traffic Engineering. She was born and raised in Colombia, where her experiences living in different-sized communities have led her to engage in public transportation planning and the critical role of transportation in shaping the quality of life, especially for those in disadvantaged situations. Her current research focuses on public transportation planning for adopting and using new transit technologies in New Mexico, such as microtransit.

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Amanda Dannáe Romero is a nuevomexicanx experimental artist and musician based in Albuquerque, NM. She was born and raised in Santa Fe and comes from a long lineage of artists who specialized in traditional colcha stitching and tinsmithing. Her multidisciplinary work combines sound, video, colcha, tin, coding, and performance to explore the interconnectedness between humans and environments. Romero holds a Master of Arts in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College and is a founding member of the L.o.A. Artist Collective and Fourteenfifteen Gallery, where she helps lead community arts programming and exhibitions. As a performer, educator, and curator, Romero also works with the incarcerated population on social justice initiatives. She is in a number of local bands and has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally.

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Ayemurs (aim-ers) is a printmaker from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her portfolio of work includes a variety of printmaking techniques including block printing, lithography and monotypes inspired by cryptozoology, entomology, and current pop culture. She both exhibited in and hosted international print exchanges, and is an award winning artist. She is also a teaching artist with several non-profit groups around Albuquerque, providing accessible beginner printmaking workshops to her community.

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Watercolor and recycled-media artist Bailey Constas uses art to heal herself, the land, and to express what it means to be neurodivergent. Based in Albuquerque, NM, she makes large-scale watercolors with intricate ink linework, sustainably forages and processes her own paint, and makes sculptures and journals from recycled materials. Originally beginning art as a form of therapy, elements of her experience with OCD, ADHD, PTSD, Major Depression, and Anxiety have come to inform her craft. Complex ink linework originally inspired by tremors—a side effect from prescribed psychiatric drugs—has developed into a way of timekeeping (time blindness is a common ADHD phenomenon). She demonstrates how trauma can be healed by creating sculptures and journals made of discarded materials, and her practice of making watercolors from invasive plants and local soil makes way for therapeutic biodiversity.

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Cassidy is a child of the West, with roots in CO, NM, TX, CA, and Mexico. She is a writer, cook, and gardener interested in how community care will save us all. Her grandmothers are her core inspiration. She is pursuing her PhD in Geography and lives in the South Valley of Albuquerque with her partner, his seven year-old kiddo, 11 chickens, 3 cats, a hive of bees, a very old dog, and a big wild, edible yard.

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Eresay Alcantar-Velasquez is a first-generation Chicana who received her bachelor's degree from Kansas State University. She is a master's student in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Department at UNM. Her research interests revolve around water quality issues and how water quality is impacted after wildfires, especially in areas with high levels of trace metals. She believes science communication is important to help communities grow their knowledge of the world and show younger generations how they can add value to their communities through scientific research.

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Eva Stricker is a dryland soil microbial ecologist. She works with land stewards to understand how we can make waste productive and build soil health to build resilience to climate change. She believes that “you don’t have to be one kind of person” and so also spends time playing fiddle and yelling at the TV when watching F1 car racing.

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Julianna Massa (any pronouns) is a dance artist based in Albuquerque, NM. Julianna's work centers around a love and respect for the messy imperfection of human bodies moving together in space, asking how dance can bring us towards shared visions of the future. Julianna uses somatics, improvisation, spoken text, and contemporary dance movement to invite participants to enter spaces as their full selves

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Miles Kelsey is a master's student at the University of New Mexico. With a background in geoscience and a passion for integrating art and science, his research focuses on understanding how rivers store and release carbon in response to natural and human-driven changes. Miles brings experience in science communication and is dedicated to fostering climate resilience through interdisciplinary collaboration. His work seeks to inspire a hopeful vision of our interconnected relationship with the environment.

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Virginia Baich is a painter and mixed-media artist whose work explores poetry and connections between astronomical and nanobiological forms. A conceptual artist, abstract painter, and naturalist, Baich intertwines images of the cosmos and celestial phenomena with the intricate details of the quantum world. She earned her MFA in Painting from UCLA and her BFA from USC, and has served as an adjunct professor at UNM and CNM. Baich has exhibited her work throughout New Mexico and the West Coast, and is planning a major exhibition at the Kosmos restaurant this spring.

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