Civic Engagement Power Check: How to Reach Out and Speak Up to Congress Want Congress to actually hear you? Learn how to make your voice impossible to ignore in UpLift Chronicles' guide to speaking truth to your elected representatives.
Civic Engagement Money Talks: So What’s Albuquerque Saying? Kristin Satterlee examines Albuquerque’s largest-ever city budget and explores what our spending priorities may reveal about what we value.
Civic Engagement Wicked: Homelessness in the Q In the latest From The Director's Desk column, NMBLC Director Cathryn McGill takes on homelessness in Albuquerque and provides a framework for proactive change.
Civic Engagement Legislative Wrapup: Highlights and Setbacks from New Mexico's 2025 Session Learn more about the fate of key bills addressing housing and digital equity introduced in the 2025 New Mexico Legislative Session.
Civic Engagement Legislative Roundup: Key Bills That Could Shape New Mexico’s Future Learn more about several key bills addressing housing, digital equity, and nonprofit and legislative work that were introduced during New Mexico’s 60-day legislative session.
Civic Engagement It’s the Journey: Farewell, Dr. Harold Bailey Cathryn McGill, founder and director of New Mexico Black Leadership Council, honors the memory and presence of Dr. Harold Bailey and everyone else doing the work.
Civic Engagement Make It Make Cents: District 6 Activates Participatory Budgeting Learn more about Participatory Budgeting, and City Councilor Nichole Rogers' work putting democracy into action in District 6, by letting residents decide how to spend $1.5 million—one community-driven project at a time.
Civic Engagement Blueprints to Ballots: New Mexico’s First Black Republican Senator Reps Diversity Meet Sen. Anthony L. Thornton, New Mexico’s first Black Republican state senator, whose unconventional journey from aerospace engineering to politics reps diversity in governance and leadership.
Civic Engagement Election 2024: Representation Matters General election results confirmed what a lot of us already knew: Black / African Americans are succeeding in New Mexico governance and politics, offering uplifting ideas and initiatives.
Civic Engagement Pull Up to the Polls: What to Know Before You Go Vote Learn more about flexing your voting rights in New Mexico on or before Nov. 5 in UpLift Chronicles' 2024 Voting Guide.
Civic Engagement Where's the Lie? How to Spot and Fight Disinformation Learn more about the difference between misinformation and disinformation and ProgressNow New Mexico's disinformation defense work.
Civic Engagement From Graffiti to Get Out the Vote: "Love Trumps Hate" Is it possible to transform divisive graffiti into a call for civic engagement and participatory democracy?
Civic Engagement Learn to D.R².I.V.E. Series Promotes Civic Understanding: Debut Webinar Engages Experts to Empower the People Learn more about or revisit NMBLC's new community engagement series, Learning to D.R².I.V.E.
