New Mexico Senate

You ready for this, for this conversation? We're gonna talk about from opportunity to influence, what happens when higher education opens the doors.

And my guests, to my immediate right, this is hot off the press, the newly elected majority whip for the state senate, Senator Cindy Nava represents District 9 in the New Mexico State Senate.

She started at Santa Fe Community College, earned two degrees at the University of New Mexico, went on to serve in Washington.

In 2024, she made history when she won her seat as a former da- former DACA rec- DACA recipient.

And so, uh, Maybe, but what do we not like to do in government? We never like to do a test to see, you know, do things work better or worse, which is like, we'll throw it in there and we'll look back a few years and say, man, that it was either great or as often happens, boy, that was a big mistake.

Final item, the Democrats in the New Mexico Senate, they had to meet recently to find new leadership because Senator Peter Wirth is not retiring from the legislature, just from Senate Majority Leader, and they have embraced Linda Trujillo from Santa Fe as the new Senate Majority Leader.

Senator Cindy Nava is the new majority whip.

Other members of the Democrats leadership team in the Senate include Mimi Stewart and Leo Jaramillo.