JCC will honor those who help community
(WorldNews Mexico)

Pecos co-founded the Santa Fe Indian School Leadership Institute, a think tank for Native people. The institute’s mission is to create systemic change within tribal communities, establish a dialogue, and educate youth and community members on important policy issues facing Native Americans and their lands. Pecos was also the longest-serving executive director of the New Mexico Indian Affairs Department, the first Native American elected to a New Mexico local school board, and the only Native American member appointed by the state Supreme Court to sit on the New Mexico Judicial Evaluation Commission. Doctors Reidy and...