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Photo Courtesy of Valerie Rangel

AUG '21 - JUL '22

Culture, History Art, Reconciliation, Truth

Photo Courtesy of Rob Martinez

NOVEMBER 18 CULTURAL HISTORY SERIES EVENT, 6 PM

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The CHART (Culture, History, Art, Reconciliation, Truth) Santa Fe project invited residents of the city and county of Santa Fe/Oga Po’geh to its first Cultural History Series event on Thursday, November 18, 2021, 6 - 7:15 pm, via Zoom.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT:

Join us for a conversation with State Historian Rob Martinez and City Historian Valerie Rangel as they take as their jumping off point CHART’s first survey question: How can we come to a fuller understanding of the history of Santa Fe?

 

The two historians will discuss the need to both broaden and deepen our knowledge of Santa Fe’scomplex history and the history of New Mexico as a whole. They will

guide us in moving out of our “history comfort zones” so that we can hear

our varied voices.

 

A short question and answer session by CHART team members will follow.

SPEAKERS

 

Rob Martinez

State Historian Rob Martínez is a native New Mexican born and raised in Albuquerque. A graduate of theUniversity of New Mexico with a B.B.A. in International Business Management, Rob then went on to pursue his interest in New Mexican culture

and history at U.N.M., earning an M.A. in Latin American history, with an emphasis

on church, cultural, and social practices of the Spanish Colonial period in

New Mexico. This included studying witch beliefs in New Mexico and the Inquisition. Rob

worked for 14 years as a research historian for the Sephardic Legacy Project, scouring civil

and church archives analyzing documents for a research and publishing project about the

Crypto Jewish phenomenon in New Mexico and the Caribbean. He was deputy state historian ofNew Mexico for six years before becoming state historian in 2019.

 

Rob has performed musically throughout New Mexico, and on multiple occasions has presentedmusic and New Mexican culture at the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival in Washington, D.C.,the NEA’s National Heritage Fellowship Awards, and also at the

Kennedy Centerfor the Performing Arts.

Valerie Rangel

Valerie Rangel is an alumna of the University of New Mexico where she earned a bachelor of University Studiesthat carried a concentration in Freshwater studies and Cultural Anthropology.  She also graduated fromthe Master of Community Regional Planning (MCRP) program where she majored in Natural Resources and Environmental Planning concentrating coursework in Indigenous Planning with a minor in Public Health.

Valerie has worked as an archivist for the New Mexico Records Center and Archives where she digitally archived Spanish land grants, oversized maps, and civil war muster rolls. She also conducted historical research and contributed historical essays for the New Mexico Office of the State Historian. In 2016, Valerie became aresearch assistant and author of a Santa Fe County Health Impact Assessment, “Indian Health Services Budget and Urban Indian Budgeting Decisions”.  In April 2018, she presented selections from the book she published, “Environmental Justice in New Mexico: Counting Coup,” at the National Environmental Justice conference in Washington, D.C. Her book presents stories

of strife and struggle in the war to protect theintegrity of natural systems, rights to religious freedom and the continuation of traditional customs.

 

Presently, Valerie offers technical support to communities working on Health Impact Assessments through the New Mexico’s Health Equity Partnership, and she works as the Community Outreach Manager assisting staff attorneys and frontline communities

on legal cases in a fight for environmental justice and human rights at the

New Mexico Environmental Law Center.

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