After staff attended a conference in New Orleans, Searchlight New Mexico was notified of possible exposure to COVID-19. Christian Marquez has been under quarantine since.
Christian Marquez
Christian was born and raised in the Land of Enchantment and has spent his career thus far exploring the stories of the people who call it home. Christian was accepted into the Dow Jones News Fund internship program, and started as an intern at Searchlight New Mexico in the summer of 2018. His past work has focused on the issues of healthcare access, housing security and homelessness, but also economic development and job growth. He is a graduate of the University of New Mexico and is based in Santa Fe.
Posted inFeatured, Politics
Extraction Point
Young people in Farmington may not want to leave, but find few reasons to stay
Posted inFeatured, Progress Report
Progress report: Albuquerque neighborhood among many tricky for 2020 census in NM
ALBUQUERQUE – Over the last 40 years, downtown Albuquerque has become a checkerboard of residential, commercial and government properties – all occupying Census Tract 21. There are Old World families who have lived here for generations and immigrant families who come and go. And then there’s Maria Theresa Rodriguez-Ronces, a spry 82-year-old landlord who immigrated […]
Posted inFull Archive, New Mexico's Children
For healthcare, please take a number
Funding cuts, healthcare shortage harm N.M.’s autistic children
Posted inFull Archive, Politics
Underfunded, undercounted: New Mexico at risk in 2020 census
You won’t find James Ironmoccasin’s house on Google Maps. To get to his place on the northeastern edge of the Navajo Nation, head east from the 7-2-11 gas station on Highway 64 in Shiprock, take the sixth turn into “Indian Village,” a neighborhood of small, unnumbered houses on a winding, ungraded and nameless dirt lane, […]
Posted inFull Archive, New Mexico's Children
Mississippi’s gains may hold lessons for New Mexico
How does a state climb off the bottom rung in measures of child well-being? Can New Mexico take a cue and move up a few notches itself, by next year?