Task Force Member - Lucy Collier

Lucy Collier moved from Massachusetts to New Mexico to join her parents in 1972 and has been living in Alcalde and more recently Chimayó since then. She worked as an early interventionist, a diagnostician, and finally a developmental psychologist at UNM. She retired several years ago but keeps her hand in with families at Las Cumbres. She helped to establish the Chimayó History Museum, curated an extensive show of until then undocumented Chimayó and el Valle weavings, and initiated an intergenerational weaving project in the Cordova school. She served as an election monitor in Bosnia-Herzogovinia several times. She produced an oral history video documenting the memories of folks still around who had been photographed by New Deal photographers. She helped organize her community to pressure T-Mobile to move its cell tower out of the Historic District of Chimayó. Resolution with the County and the FCC is still pending. However better standards for cell towers have been adopted by Rio Arriba County as a result. She is a musician, a gardener, and continues to fight for preservation of tradition and culture in her adopted community.

Email:lcpm@valornet.com