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New Mexico enters this moment carrying added weight, with historically high malpractice costs, a Medicaid-concentrated payer mix, rural access barriers, and persistent workforce shortages shaping not just healthcare delivery, but the state\u2019s broader economic proposition. A region with a strained healthcare system is a harder sell, whether you\u2019re recruiting a neurosurgeon or a semiconductor manufacturer. Yet New Mexico has demonstrated these challenges are not fixed. Landmark medical malpractice reform, achieved through collaboration among healthcare organizations, business leaders, and policymakers from across the state, proved that when healthcare and the business community align around shared economic interests, structural change is possible. Greater Albuquerque was central to that effort, and the region has both the relationships and the momentum to lead what comes next. That success is a reminder of how change actually happens. Not through any single organization or sector acting alone, but through broad partnership, diverse perspectives, and aligned action around shared goals. We are convening that conversation, and we want you at the table. Join us for a luncheon discussion that brings together healthcare leaders, business voices, and policymakers to shape the future of Greater Albuquerque\u2019s economic competitiveness.", "start": "2026-08-20T11:30:00", "end": "2026-08-20T13:00:00", "all_day": false, "timezone": "America/Denver", "rrule": null, "location": { "name": "Sandia Golf Club", "address": "30 Rainbow Rd, Albuquerque, NM, 87113", "city": "Albuquerque", "virtual": false }, "tags": [ "policy-economic-dev", "space", "technology" ], "registration": { "status": "open", "url": "https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/2367z4t", "rsvp_instructions": null, "deadline": null, "cost": null, "watch": true, "last_checked": "2026-07-29", "opened_on": "2026-07-29" }, "sources": [ { "slug": "area-abq", "name": "Albuquerque Regional Economic Alliance (AREA)", "url": "https://www.abq.org/event/2026-health-strategy-luncheon/", "source_event_id": 246939, "fetched_at": "2026-07-29T05:03:34.503698+00:00" } ], "confidence": "high", "sequence": 0, "status": "confirmed" }, { "uid": "1b42b03d005b875a@events.abq-events.pages.dev", "fingerprint": "1b42b03d005b875a", "title": "Creative People, Creative Places \u2013 Creative Technologies on the Mother Road (September)", "description": "Sign up to attend here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creative-people-creative-places-creative-technologies-on-the-mother-road-tickets-1993560945453?aff=ebdsoporgprofile A seminar series in honor of the Route 66 Centennial showcasing areas where technology and creativity meet. UNM Rainforest Innovations is hosting a Creativity and Technology on the Mother Road Seminar Series in honor of the Route 66 Centennial. This seminar series brings together panels of creative people in science, technology, and the arts, highlighting STEAM and showcasing areas where technology and creativity meet. New Mexico is full of Creative People and Creative Places at the University of New Mexico and beyond. This series serves to build connections and bridges amongst players in the Albuquerque and New Mexico creative ecosystem and engage communities of technologists and creatives whose work and mission build towards entrepreneurial economic development for the state of New Mexico. This panel focuses on creative people and creative places at the University of New Mexico and in the community. The September event will feature museums in Albuquerque on and around NM Route 66. Panelists include: Leba Freed, President, WHEELS Museum, Inc. Alicia Romero, Head Curator, Albuquerque Museum Sheldon Hamilton, Director X Studio, Explora Science Center and Children\u2019s Museum Lunch will be provided. Free, no cite parking available for this event. About the Panelists: Leba Freed, President, WHEELS Museum, Inc. Leba Freed was born in Albuquerque and is a graduate of the University of New Mexico. She is a member of many boards, including the legislative railyards advisory board. She ran her family business for decades and began the effort to save the Rail Yards in 1994. She has worked full-time as a volunteer for 31 years with elected officials, volunteers, corporations, schools, film and many others to create the WHEELS Museum and other projects on the iconic Rail Yards. The WHEELS Museum has now served over 300,000 people from around the world, won 30 awards and has more than 10,000 rare exhibit items of historical importance. Alicia Romero, Head Curator, Albuquerque Museum Alicia Romero was born and raise in Albuquerque. She graduated with a BA in History and Art History and an MA in History from UNM. Romero graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a PhD in History following the completion of her dissertation on Albuquerque\u2019s Barelas community. She returned to UNM in 2015 and served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Equity and Inclusion. From 2018-2023, Romero was Curator and later Head Curator at the New Mexico History Museum and Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe. In 2023, she became Curator of History at the Albuquerque Museum and was recently promoted to Head Curator and Curator of History there in 2025. She has curated over eighteen exhibitions on Albuquerque and New Mexico history and is currently celebrating the opening of The Other Route 66: 100 Years of People, Identity, and Place in Albuquerque. Sheldon Hamilton, Director X Studio, Explora Science Center and Children\u2019s Museum Sheldon Hamilton is the Director of X Studio, Explora\u2019s teen workforce development center, where he has worked in the informal education and museum fields for seven years. He believes that when young people are given space to explore both creative and technical skills, they develop a fuller picture of what a future in STEAM can look like for them, and has built programs that reflect that belief, centering access and equity for underrepresented teens in Albuquerque. 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UNM Rainforest Innovations is hosting a Creativity and Technology on the Mother Road Seminar Series in honor of the Route 66 Centennial. This seminar series brings together panels of creative people in science, technology, and the arts, highlighting STEAM and showcasing areas where technology and creativity meet. New Mexico is full of Creative People and Creative Places at the University of New Mexico and beyond. This series serves to build connections and bridges amongst players in the Albuquerque and New Mexico creative ecosystem and engage communities of technologists and creatives whose work and mission build towards entrepreneurial economic development for the state of New Mexico. This panel focuses on creative people and creative places at the University of New Mexico and in the community. October panelists include: Cameron Ward, Founder & Creative Director, Art Off the Rails Donatella Davanzo, Ph.D. Sandy Johnson, Architect, Designer, Mixed-Media Artist Lunch will be provided. Free, no cite parking available for this event. About the Panelists: Cameron Ward, Founder & Creative Director, Art Off the Rails Cameron Ward is a producer, media host, and creative entrepreneur building infrastructure for Indigenous and emerging voices across the American Southwest and beyond. She is a proud member of the Pueblo of Isleta and a graduate student from the University of Southern California, she works at the intersection of media, cultural production, and economic community development within contemporary Indigenous expression. She is the Founder and Creative Director of Art Off the Rails, a cultural production and strategy company that develops exhibitions, magazine and editorial initiatives, marketing campaigns, and public activations across film, fashion, music, and contemporary art. Operating across New Mexico and California, the company partners with artists, institutions, and creative entrepreneurs to expand visibility and build sustainable creative economies rooted in community. Donatella Davanzo, Ph.D. Italian American anthropologist and photo ethnographer, Dr. Donatella Davanzo focuses her documentary work on traditional communities and sites in Italy and New Mexico to preserve their historic, social, and cultural aspects. Donatella is widely recognized for her in-depth exploration and lectures centering on the acequias \u2013 centuries-old, communally managed crop irrigation systems in New Mexico. In urban contexts, her recent photographic project \u201cRoute 66 Connected\u201d (2022-2026) centers on a documentation of the original properties along Route 66 in New Mexico. Donatella holds a doctorate in American Studies at University of New Mexico and currently leads the Albuquerque Italian Language and Culture Group. Drawing from photographic and anthropological experiences in Italy and in the US, she also carries out didactic and training teachings about visual ethnographic methodologies. Sandy Johnson, Architect, Designer, Mixed-Media Artist Sandy is an Albuquerque native who ventured to the West Coast, only to find her way back home to the Land of Enchantment. She is deeply tied to her roots here in New Mexico and has been indulging in her architectural and design ambitions with rigor and enthusiasm for over twenty years. She flourishes in exploring new design approaches but stays grounded to the original principles of architecture: form vs. function and point, line, plane. From the first sketch to final completion, it\u2019s the diligently crafted details that make each architecture and art piece unique. By day, Sandy is a practicing architect and healthcare facilities planner for the University of New Mexico Hospital, managing new ground-up facilities from first concepts, through design and construction, to final move-in day and first-patient. In her spare time, she explores digital mixed-media art, showcasing architectural depictions of the Southwest Landscape, biophilic themes, and human form. 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