By Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard
New Mexico State Land Office

Dear Los Alamos County voters!

Just over a decade ago, I began my public service in this community.

I will never forget the people in Los Alamos who helped elect me to my first ever political office with all of their hard work and support.

Ever since that day I was elected in 2012, I have never forgotten where I started.

Los Alamos is the community that taught me what it meant to be a responsive public servant, to listen to all viewpoints, and to represent constituents that didn’t always agree with me.

I remember long policy conversations at folks’ front doors and many of the friends I have in town—of ALL political stripes—I met on the campaign trail!

Now that I’m in a statewide office, I carry those beginnings with me still and they inform the kind of public servant I strive to be.

Thank you for giving me my start, Los Alamos!