Santa Fe Future 2005
White Paper
The Santa Fe Future 2005 white paper focuses on leadership, defining Santa Fe's needs, and making recommendations.
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Awards from the Future
The 2005 group came up with the concept of giving "Awards from the Future" to individuals or organizations who they felt were working for the future of Santa Fe.
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Participant Biographies
Carl Condit
Carl Condit was born in Livermore, California and came to Santa Fe to attend St. John's College. He graduated from St. John's in 1994. He is the Director of Operations and Sales for Sunstone Press, a renowned Santa Fe publishing company founded in 1971. Previously he was the Director of Operations for Santa Fe Economic Development, Inc., served as the Financial Manager and several other positions over a six-year period for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and was the Record Store Manager at The Candyman.
Carl's other activities include playing cello and serving on the Board of Directors of the Santa Fe Community Orchestra and serving as Treasurer of Santa Fe New Music.
Gregory Dye
Greg Dye is a Business Advisor for the Small Business Development Center at Santa Fe Community College. He has more than 15 years of experience in accounting, finance, and small business. Greg is also an adjunct professor for UNM, NMHU, NNMCC and SFCC. He holds a BBA in Accounting from the Anderson School of Management at UNM and an MBA in Management from NMSU. Greg has worked for a venture capital company, government contractors, and as an independent financial consultant.
Greg also manages his personal rental property business and has partnership interests in a couple of local retail businesses. He loves to hike, mountain bike, ski, garden, and backpack. Greg's future goals are to expand his leadership skills and to take a more proactive role in Santa Fe's community.
Stephen Guerin
Stephen Guerin is currently president of RedfishGroup. His work centers on visualization, modeling and the design of self-organizing systems.
He recently worked as a Senior Software Developer at BiosGroup and participated as a member of Stuart Kauffman's research group. There, he created Complexity Science-based applications for Fortune 100 and Government clients.
Stephen Guerin started researching chaotic systems as they applied to economic systems and business cycles in 1989. He founded RedfishGroup in 1991 to provide computer solutions for desktop publishing and video editing. In 1993, RedfishGroup delivered several award-winning multimedia and computer animation projects. Operations were shifted to Beijing in 1994 to develop a series of Chinese language translation tools. RedfishGroup went on to provide Internet programming and consulting to multinational and Chinese firms with presences in Beijing and Shanghai. After returning from China in 1997, Stephen spent a few years of research in Cognitive Science looking for applications to distributed software systems.
RedfishGroup is now based in Santa Fe, New Mexico with a long term goal of creating living software systems.
Samsunshine Levy
Samsunshine Levy is president of NET MAN, Inc. Business Websites That Work, a full service website development and internet integration & consulting company in its tenth year. He is a past Chairman of the Board of Directors and current vice-chair/chair-elect of the New Mexico Internet Professionals Association (NMIPA). Sam has been a Santa Fe Community College teacher and workshop presenter for a series of "Doing Business On The Internet" workshops. He regularly publishes an Internet Business advice column in the NMIPA Internet Informer, distributed to over 10,000 New Mexico business owners and southwest US Chamber of Commerce members. He also is Chairman of New Media Industries, Inc. and the New Media Gallery, a collaborative industry and community marketing, awareness, training and economic development group working on the branding and identity of New Mexico as a center for New Media and Design.
Sam was born in Kankakee, Illinois and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He arrived in New Mexico in 1982, and Santa Fe in 1986, graduating from Santa Fe High School in 1988 and then New Mexico State University studying Mechanical Engineering. After early training in the kitchens of the best restaurants in Santa Fe, Sam spent nearly five years cooking his way up to one, two and three starred Michelin restaurants in Italy and France, and returned to work with Chez Panisse alumnus David Tanis and author Deborah Madison both in Santa Fe and building/opening a restaurant in Berkeley, CA.
Sam contributes time and energy as co-chair of CARNAVAL SANTA FE, an annual winter community celebration, and enjoys Skiing, Skydiving, Rockets, Kids, Swimming Pools, Soccer, Storybooks, Opera, Jazz, Piano, Tenor Sax, Tartufi Bianchi, Green Chile, Aranci Tarocchi, Extreme Cooking, internet strategy, legacy integration consulting and creative programming project development - whatever THOSE things mean! Sam is also a board advisor and webmaster to the Coalition for Quality Children's Media and the KIDS FIRST! Program, an organization founded by his mother, Ranny Levy. Sam and his wife, Kristin, have two sons, Sadel, 9, and Adensunset, 4.
Chris Lopez
Chris Lopez is a native Santa Fean who graduated from Santa Fe Preparatory School in 1990. He obtained his BA in History from Lewis & Clark College (Portland Oregon) in 1994, and his MCRP (Master of Community & Regional Planning) from the University of New Mexico in 2001.
Chris works for the Regional Development Corporation, a non-profit organization that develops and administers a variety of economic development projects in northern New Mexico and throughout the State. His primary job is the Partnerships Manager for the Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program (SATOP), a NASA funded initiative that provides free engineering assistance to small businesses in an effort to solve their technical challenges. The program is designed to speed the transfer of space technologies to the private sector in areas including manufacturing, design analysis, materials selection, electronics, and chemistry.
Some of Chris' community service includes serving on the New Mexico Commission for Community Volunteerism which oversees the AmeriCorps program, the current President of the Santa Fe Prep Alumni Board, the Awards Committee Chair for the Governor's Summit on Economic Development, and a committee member for the Governor's Land Grant and Colonias Economic Development Summit. His personal hobbies include working with Santa Fe Outfitters as an elk hunting guide on a private ranch in the southern San Juan Mountains of Colorado, fly-fishing, golf and his family.
Virginia Padilla
Virginia Padilla was born and raised in Cuarteles, New Mexico. She has four sons, Nick 18, Corey 15, Roger 12, and Jacob 9. She has always had a passion for teaching and learning and her life long research question has been, "What makes a GREAT teacher?" She is especially interested in improving Hispanic communities through education and mentoring young Latinas in their emergence to leadership roles. She is the Vice President for Membership for MANA Del Norte, a national Latina organization.
Virginia earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees in education at the College of Santa Fe. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in education at the University of New Mexico. She has served in the field of education for 14 years as a teacher, faculty member and an administrator. From 1991-1996 she was a teacher for Pojoaque Public School district. From 1996-2000 she was the Department Chairperson for Humanities, Social Science, Teacher Education, Language & Letters at Northern New Mexico Community College, where she was instrumental to the development of the first community college alternative teacher licensure program in New Mexico. From 2000-2002 she was the Director of Academic Support and Student Services at Pueblo Community College-Fremont Campus. Currently at Santa Fe Community College, Virginia is the Director of Teacher Education and the Principal Investigator for the Title V Co-op grant project: El Colegio - A Virtual College for New Mexico, a project to increase access to Hispanic and low income individuals to high need programs through a quality distance learning network.
In regards to leadership, Virginia believes that good leaders are like good teachers; always striving to be better at inspiring and supporting growth in others in ways that contribute to the betterment of the world around us. Good leaders are visionaries and servants of their communities. They make decisions based on "big picture" and what is best for their communities. Above all, good leaders always try to "do the right thing" in the midst of a complex and ever changing world. The legacy that good leaders leave behind is transformed and enriched communities, individuals, and future leaders.
In regards to the future of Santa Fe, she believes that in order for Santa Fe to reach its next level of "greatness" all people must come to a mutual understanding, acceptance and respect for one another (our experiences, our cultures, our views of and contributions to the world).