Sami Jaber moved to Santa Fe from the de facto Palestinian capital of Ramallah in 1995 and is dedicated to finding ways to create Peace between Palestine and Israel.

Stuck in a snowdrift? Slipped on the sidewalk? The Weather Gods bear the blame, but City of Santa Fe Public Works Director Robert Romero takes the flak. Romero, a Santa Fe native, took the job in 2004, after serving several years as city engineer. Given the constant gripes about unplowed streets, we gave him the chance to defend himself.

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How does a gender-ambiguous performance artist from Great Britain end up revitalizing the theater and music scene in one of New Mexico’s most legendary ghost towns?

Lizzy Lyons, a College of Santa Fe graduate, is the program director for Youth Shelters and Family Services’ Street Outreach program.

Don Kimball is an animal-rights activist with Peace and Justice for Animals who has worked around the country since 1989 to protect animals

Former cultural advisor to the Australian Consulate in New York, associate of La Lutta Media Collective and member of New York Women in Film and Television, Lea Rekow has recently been announced as the new executive director of the Center for Contemporary Arts.

Following a long career in construction, Kim Shanahan left his volunteer position as president of the Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association to become its paid interim executive officer. The SFAHBA and its Green Building Council partnered with the City of Santa Fe and other organizations to present the Santa Fe Green Building Summit and Expo, Nov. 21-23.

A self-proclaimed lone wolf, resiliency expert, wilderness guru and passionate communicator, Larry Glover is the founder and director of the Wild Resiliency Institute. His fascination with wilderness brought him to the revelation that aspen groves are a metaphor for the essence of humanity.

When human trafficking came up in the New Mexico Legislature earlier in the 2008 session, victims’ advocates had to tread carefully: State officials were hesitant to get involved in enforcing federal immigration laws. However, as Assistant Attorney General María Sánchez-Gagne explains, the focus of the law on victims, rather than smugglers, motivated the Legislature to back the proposal and, in February, New Mexico became the final border state to establish human trafficking