DR. VIRGINIA NECOCHEA is a Xicana, mother, organizer, and writer. She is the Executive Director of the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, a public interest nonprofit law center that works alongside frontline communities in upholding environmental justice across the state. Dr. Necochea's lifelong path is to be of service to community and to be a caretaker of sacred Mother Earth.
“It is the ceremonial teachings that must guide me as I embark on this journey to name, disrupt, and dismantle environmental racism,” says Dr. Virginia Necochea, ED of the New Mexico Environmental Law Center.