Race, Rurality, & College Access in New Mexico

In January, Davis New Mexico Scholarship Deputy Director, Hanna Negishi Levin, and Upward Bound Española Director, Tobe Bott-Lyons, spoke with Deputy Cabinet Secretary of Higher Education, Patricia Trujillo, at Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe about their chapter Urbanormativity, College Access, and Rural First-Generation Students of Color in Northern New Mexico: A Case Study. Their chapter, which explores innovative and homegrown approaches to supporting New Mexican students, centers on their work as founding steering committee members of ROCA NM and appears in Race and Rurality: Considerations for Advancing Higher Education Equity.

The conversation covered a wide range of topics, interrogating myths and misconceptions about race, place, and higher education. You can watch it in full here.