Rutgers Representatives

2:30 PM | Environmental Filmmaking

Representatives from Doña Ana Community College, the Learning Action Buffet, the Humanities Action Lab, NMSU Creative Media Institute, and the Gila Film School and Environmental Media Center join to discuss the nexus of environmental equity action and media production. 

Representatives from the Rutgers University-Newark (HAL Hub) of the HAL Project –  Climates of Inequality and the COVID Crisis: Building Leadership at Minority Serving Institutions, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Howie learned the value of a dollar at a young age. His father was a Vietnam Veteran who worked in the copper mine while his mother worked multiple hourly-wage jobs. He went to work as a teenager to help provide for the family and later worked as a shoe salesman and maintenance worker to put himself through Western New Mexico University. The first in his family to go to college, Howie went on to earn a PhD in education from NMSU.

Howie went home to teach students in special education in the Silver City and Cobre School Districts, and became active in the community. He coached local high school baseball teams to state championships, and is one of the longest serving volunteers of Big Brothers/Big Sisters in New Mexico, while raising two children ages 6 and 9. Howie earned the trust of his neighbors and was elected Grant County Clerk, where he modernized voting systems to make sure every vote counted.

Since 2008, Howie has been an aggressive leader for children and classrooms in the State Senate, fighting for his district, and to make every corner of New Mexico a better place to live. He has pushed for progressive policies such as universal health care. He fought for rural and tribal economic development, and he fought to protect veterans’ and senior services across the state, and mental health programs.

An experienced leader with solutions, Howie Morales has a solid record helping to lead the effort to meet our state’s big challenges for better jobs and wages, and real improvements to public education.

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