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Mary Murnane, President, 2010-, - Albuquerque
Mary is Water Resources Program Manager for Bernalillo County since 2003. The program focuses on implementing the
joint Bernalillo County/City of Albuquerque/ Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority Water Protection Policy
and Action Plan, including regional water quality monitoring, extending sewer and water service in the County through financial
assistance to low income households, developing and implementing the County's stormwater quality management plan and NPDES
Program, implementing the County's water conservation ordinance and developing water conservation measures for County
facilities. Mary formerly served as Water and Facilities Planner for the County for almost five years. Before that, she was
the Regional Planner for the Northwest New Mexico Council of Governments, and was involved in the development of the NWNM
Regional Water Plan. She is the County's alternate representative to the Middle Rio Grande Water Resources Board. She
holds a Master's degree from the University of Texas. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners,
and past president of the New Mexico Section of the American Water Resources Association.
Jean Witherspoon, Secretary/Treasurer - Albuquerque
Jean worked for the City
of Albuquerque and Water Utility Authority from 1984 to 2006. Prior to that she worked as a land
use planner in Albuquerque and Phoenix. She was appointed Albuquerque’s Water Conservation Officer
in 1992 and was responsible for overseeing development and implementation of that program through late 2001. During
this time, Albuquerque’s per account water use went down almost 30%. She also worked with the Albuquerque/Bernalillo
County Ground Water Protection Plan for over eighteen years. After twenty-five years in municipal service,
Jean retired in late 2006. She is a past-President of the New Mexico Water Conservation Alliance
and the New Mexico American Water Resources Association. Jean earned a Bachelor of Fine
Arts in Architecture and a Master of Water Resource Administration from the University of New Mexico. The
Water Resource program includes courses from a number of disciplines and emphasizes communication skills.
Jean is a native from Silver City and Gallup and has resided in Albuquerque over thirty years. Jean
still finds New Mexico an incredible place to live and believes water protection, planning and conservation are critical to
the state’s future
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Aron Balok
- Roswell
Aron Balok has been the
Water Resource Specialist for the Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District for about a year. He came to the district from
the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau, where he was the South Eastern Regional Director. Aron has a passion for New
Mexico's agricultural heritage and a deep appreciation for the complexity of the water issues that face the state.
He has been professionally involved in water related issues for the past seven years.
Aron
was raised on a cattle ranch in north western New Mexico. He attended New Mexico State University, and in 1997 graduated with
a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Extension and Education. He and his Wife Hayly and their three girls live in Roswell
New Mexico.
Beth Bardwell - Las Cruces
Beth has been a resident of Las Cruces since 1995. She received her Juris Doctorate from the
University of Oregon School of Law in 1987 and practiced Indian and criminal law for seven years. She became an avid birdwatcher
and left her legal practice to study biology. She received her Masters in Biology from New Mexico State University in 1999.
Beth’s interest in water began in 1997 when she joined the board of a regional environmental organization and has matured
over the years as she continues to work on water policy and Rio Grande restoration as program officer for the Chihuahuan Desert
Field Office of the World Wildlife Fund.
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Consuelo (Conci) Bokum ,
Immediate past President - Santa Fe
Conci has served
as President of the Board of Directors of the New Mexico Water Dialogue since 199x, and since August 2006 as interim Executive
Director. She is the director for the New Mexico Water Project, 1000 Friends of New Mexico. She has been working on
water policy issues since 1991 when she and two others co-authored Living Within Our Means: A Water Management Policy
for New Mexico in the 21st Century. She subsequently researched and wrote Implementing the Public Welfare Requirement
in New Mexico's Water Code, published in the University of New Mexico School of Law's Natural Resources Journal.
In 2002, she, Alletta Belin, and Frank Titus co-authored Taking Charge of our Water Destiny: A Water Management
Policy for New Mexico in the 21st Century. Conci is chair of the Jemez y Sangre Regional Water Planning Council, a member
of the Governor's Blue Ribbon Water Task Force, and the public member of the Buckman Direct Diversion Project Board. In
1993 she served on the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission's committee that developed the Regional Water Planning
Handbook.
John Brown – Corrales
John served as the Dialogue’s executive director from 2002 to 2006. Now a consultant, his career has focused
on understanding how public policy gets made, its results, and how people can change it. He has worked in policy organizations
for the federal government, the Navajo Nation, the State of New Mexico, Sandoval County, and (as a consultant) for several
Indian tribes and organizations. He taught about the policy process as an instructor at the University of New Mexico in Public
Administration and the Political Science Department. In the mid 1990s, as a consultant to a Philippines environmental NGO
and later for the New Mexico Acequia Association, he became interested in how institutions – rules, norms, and shared
strategies that people use to structure their interactions – work to maintain policy stability and shape policy change
around “social-ecological” issues. In 2000-01, as a visiting scholar at Indiana University’s Workshop in
Political Theory and Policy Analysis, he studied and wrote about these themes in relation to water planning and policy in
New Mexico. He has been active in the MRG Water Assembly since 1999.
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Aaron Chavez - San Juan Watershed (Farmington)
Aaron graduated from the University of New Mexico
in 2000 with a Bachelor Degree in Geography (GIS). Aaron has worked for the San Juan Water Commission since 2001 and is currently
the Commission's GIS Coordinator - IT and Web Design Specialist. Through his work at the Commission, Aaron actively participates
in a variety of water programs and projects relating to the San Juan Watershed including, the Hydrology Committee for the
San Juan Basin Recovery Implementation Program, the Animas Watershed Partnership, the San Juan Watershed Group, and the San
Juan Watershed Woody Invasive Initiative. In addition, Aaron is a member of the Colorado River Water Users Association, where
he represents New Mexico on the Program Committee. Aaron continues to provide technical support to the San Juan Basin Regional
Water Planning Committee and he is currently working on mapping projects in San Juan County to promote regional planning.
A native New Mexican from Cuba, New Mexico, Aaron currently
resides in Aztec with his wife Sabrina, and their two young sons.
Alan Hamilton - Santa Fe
Alan holds a
BA in Mythological Studies from Colorado College, an MA in Liberal Arts Education from Saint John's College, and a PhD
in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. His professional work has been varied, including many years as a
psychologist, contractor, business consultant and community organizer around land and river conservation and other environmental
issues. One of Alan's main strengths is his ability to find interdisciplinary connections that bring new perspectives
and possibilities to difficult situations. A native of Colorado, he has lived in Santa Fe, NM since 1981 with his wife
Sarah and daughters Emma and Laura. Along with his family, the cultures and landscapes of New Mexico have become primary sources
of inspiration that motivate and inform his work. Alan is presently working as a psychologist in private practice and
concurrently as the Conservation Director for the New Mexico Wildlife Federation. He is also the President of Rio Grande
Return, a business developed to provide support and funding to organizations in the Rio Grande watershed for the restoration
and protection of the Rio Grande. In 1996 Alan started a community based therapy program for adolescents called BackTalk
and served as its executive director for 10 years. Besides the Dialogue, he has also served as a board member of several
organizations including: Conservation Voters New Mexico, and the S.B. Foundation.
Kendyl Monroe - Seneca
Kendyl
is owner with other family members and General Manager of two ranches in the northeast corner of New Mexico, and
resident of one of the ranches. Kendyl is Chairman of the Union County Water Board, which advises the Union County
Commissioners about water issues, and a member of the Northeast New Mexico Regional Water Plan Steering Committee. He
chairs the Board of Directors and is part owner of Eklund Association, Incorporated, which owns and operates the Eklund Hotel,
Dining Room, and Saloon in Clayton, NM.
Frank Titus - Albuquerque
Frank is a consulting hydrogeologist. In 1956, fresh out of graduate school, he hired on (for nine years) as
a "Ground Water Geologist" with the US Geological Survey in Albuquerque. Steve Reynolds was the new State Engineer,
and the ‘50s drought was in full swing. Since then Frnk has taught hydrogeology and geology at New Mexico Tech; managed
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) projects throughout North America; was Manager of Hydrology on DOE's Uranium Mill
Tailings Remedial Action Project; was Science Advisor to State Engineer Tom Turney; was an instigator of, and has remained
active in, the Middle Rio Grande Water Assembly; and until recently was Senior Outreach Hydrogeologist for the state Bureau
of Geology & Mineral Resources. He wants New Mexico to grow, but to keep looking like New Mexico - and he is convinced
that he's smarter about that now than when he first got here.
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