NM's Women: Heritage and Innovation Symposium
Channel: New Mexico Humanities Council
Date: 2022-08-01

In this special symposium organized through New Mexico Listens, historians explore the roles played by women from different socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds on the development of New Mexico and their contributions to our state’s unique multicultural environment.

Building on their legacy and bringing arts to the forefront, Indigenous, Hispano, Anglo women continue to work towards equal recognition and progress to help New Mexico fulfill its promise.

For more detailed information and resources, visit: https://nmhumanities.org/nmlistens

Panelists: 
Nicolasa Chávez - Deputy State Historian of New Mexico, curator, author, fourteenth-generation New Mexican, Flamenco and Tango artist

Sylvia Ramos Cruz, MD - NM women’s suffrage expert, poet, writer, artist, women’s rights advocate, and retired surgeon

Robin Farwell Gavin - Curator Emeritus, Spanish Colonial Arts Museum, author of Converging Streams: Art of the Hispanic and Native American Southwest

Dr. Frances Levine - Southwest history expert, author, president and CEO of Missouri Historical Society, and former director of NM History Museum

Lisa Nordstrum - history teacher, educator/curriculum developer for NM Cultural Affairs Department and the School of Advanced Research

The New Mexico Humanities Councils is a non-profit dedicated to exploring who we are, who we were and who we wish to be.