True Heroes 2023: Carmen Baca
THE SPRING MORNING started the same as any other for writer Carmen Baca. But around 2 p.m. on April 6, 2022, from her home in Cañoncito de las Manuelitas, Baca noticed smoke snaking across the sky off…
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2023 True Heroes
Join us on November 16 at 7 p.m. for New Mexico Magazine's True Heroes recognition ceremony on YouTube: @newmexicomag Presented by New Mexico Magazine and KOB 4. CARMEN BACA The longtime Las Vegas…
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True Heroes 2022: Sean Sinclair
WHEN THE HERMITS PEAK/CALF CANYON FIRE erupted this spring, growing from a prescribed burn in the Santa Fe National Forest into the worst wildfire in New Mexico history, Sean Sinclair didn’t hesitate…
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True Heroes 2022: Enrique Macias Moreno
ENRIQUE MACIAS MORENO CAN’T FORGET THE HELP his family received from the community’s food bank when he was growing up on a ranch in Hagerman, on the outskirts of Roswell. As an adult, he’s turned his…
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True Heroes 2022: Mary Ann Cortese
EXCITEMENT OVERTOOK MARY ANN CORTESE as she watched the first display go up in the empty Treaty Room at the Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site. The larger-than-life photograph…
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True Heroes 2022: Diana Molina
DIANA MOLINA THINKS BIG. Copper Canyon huge. Texas large. Border issues massive. “We’re taking this national,” says the La Unión artist behind the traveling multimedia exhibit and book titled Icons…
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True Heroes 2022: Doris Fields
DORIS FIELDS WAS AROUND 10 YEARS OLD when it happened. Two of her close friends in Memphis, Tennessee, got into a grievous argument. Something welled up inside of Fields that grew into a lifelong…
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True Heroes 2022: Beverly Charley
IN HER EARLY TWENTIES, WHILE SERVING IN THE ARMY, Farmington native Beverly Charley felt her heart grow three times bigger. Charley was leading a supply convoy in Somalia when one of the vehicles…
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True Heroes 2022: Elizabeth "Liz" Bradford
DURING RAMADAN LAST YEAR, Liz Bradford and her daughter were bringing food to the home of a recently arrived Rwandan student, to break the holy fast. As a teacher with the Albuquerque Public Schools…
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True Heroes 2022: Dr. Sanjeev Arora
ONE MORNING IN 2001, DR. SANJEEV ARORA entered his university clinic in Albuquerque to find a woman and her two children already waiting for him. The woman, who had been living with untreated…
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