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Alicia Inez Guzmán

Raised in the northern New Mexican village of Truchas, Alicia Inez Guzmán has written about histories of place, identity, and land use in New Mexico. She brings this knowledge to her current role at Searchlight, where she focuses on nuclear issues and the impacts of the nuclear industry. The former senior editor of New Mexico Magazine, Alicia holds a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester in New York.

alicia@searchlightnm.org
Posted inFeatured

The day the war on drugs came to Chimayó

Avatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán November 30, 2021January 12, 2023

On a September morning in 1999, federal agents descended on the village as part of a nationwide heroin crackdown. The bust changed nothing and everything.

Posted inFeatured, New Mexico's Children, New Mexico's Children, Your Right To Know

You’ve reached 17,494 students. Please leave a message.

Avatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán August 18, 2021August 3, 2023

New Mexico paid millions to a Utah company to text, email and phone “disengaged” students. Was it the right call?

Posted inCoronavirus, Featured, New Mexico's Children, New Mexico's Children

The great disconnect

Avatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán June 16, 2021August 3, 2023

Thousands of at-risk students in New Mexico still have no access to the internet, making remote learning impossible. Will the state ever bridge the divide?

Josh Jasso, farm manager at La Semilla, holds an okra start while talking to the staff about the day’s planting plans.
Posted inAnthony, Coronavirus, Featured, Hitting Home

Crossings to bear

Avatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán May 26, 2021August 3, 2023

For years, drought and poverty have taken a harsh toll on this border town’s agriculture and migrant workers. Then came the coronavirus.

Posted inCoronavirus, Featured, In their own words, New Mexico's Children

In their own words: Chimayó

Avatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán April 1, 2021July 10, 2022

What children say about online learning and a school year lost to COVID

Posted inFeatured, In their own words

In their own words: Albuquerque

Avatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán March 24, 2021July 10, 2022

What children say about online learning and a school year lost to COVID

Posted inFeatured

Rest in pieces

Avatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán December 29, 2020July 10, 2022

Santa Fe’s obelisk is gone. Here’s why we’re still so shattered.

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