Profiles: Well-being

Meet remarkable Taos women working in health and education

 

The sisters' mother was a nurse for thirty years and always encouraged Jessica and Josephine in the same direction.

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Lorrie and her husband spent their honeymoon in Taos shortly after she received a MFA in painting. They moved here because of the easy paced...

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Practicing in Taos allows Linda to fill the role she wants as a healthcare provider – educating patients on medicine care, outpatient...

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Dedicated to helping Taos youth, Cynthia founded the local Girl Scouts Chapter in 1979 and has been a dedicated ice skating coach since 1994.

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Not only a passionate and accomplished emergency care practitioner, Christa is a serious cyclist. This year alone she has ridden in five...

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It is her work developing and teaching Taos Rocks Hot Stone Therapy that Ana considers most noteworthy.

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Kat is known for her work the Battered Women’s Project, the Children’s Saferoom, and the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Program as...

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Interested in using art as a tool to work with teenagers, Joleen created Evolving Creative Opportunities (ECO), an innovative arts...

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Lucy is author of Clinical Mastery in the Treatment of Myofascial Pain (2005) which has been translated into numerous languages.
 

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Aura is one of those people fortunate enough to have found a true passion to build a business around. As a yoga teacher and personal trainer,...

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Josie has been seeking peace and justice and the well being of all humankind for as long as she can remember. As a practicing...

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Early experience working on ski patrols informed Dr. Lynch's dedication to emergency medicine and when she first skied Taos, she . . .

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The sisters teach Zumba, a dance-based fitness program set to Latin and international music.

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With a physicist for a father and psychotherapist/peace activist for a mother, Dr. Mohling was raised by two people with rich careers that...

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Kathy has been mother, teacher, service provider, flamenco dancer – but these days, you can find her running the Taos First Steps program.

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For as long as she can remember, soccer has been Katlin Okamoto’s passion. For her the game is alternatively a driving force, a getaway, a...

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Loretta is the first physician in her family, which has a tradition of curanderas. The integration of medicine and healing traditions is...

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Monique has found a way to turn her two great avocations—writing and yoga—into vocations.

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Lucy directs the youth art education program at Harwood Museum of Art as well as programming for the Arthur Bell Auditorium.

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In her outstanding career, Roselyn has worked with special needs and underserved populations, children in foster care, and individuals...

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Now an emergency room nurse at Holy Cross Hospital, Annette began her medical career as a paramedic in 1985.

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Kirstie designed the Integrative Massage Therapy Program for UNM-Taos, where she also co-designed the Yoga Teacher Training Program.

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Tomacita grew up in Taos, the product of two cultures and a family that set no limits on what she could achieve.

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Sylvia always knew she was going to be a doctor but she credits her grandmother Simona, who was a folk healer, for teaching her about...

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