Carmen J. Lopez Email & Phone Number

Santa Fe, NM, US

New Mexico, United States

The mission of Observe New Mexico Elections is to increase transparency and trust in New Mexico’s elections by training and deploying nonpartisan election observers throughout the state. Observers will report on how election laws and procedures are followed, representing all voters without interfering in the electoral process. Findings from their.

United States

Leads the jail based voting advocacy work for The Sentencing Project.

New Mexico, United States

CL Strategies supports nonprofits and communities to build an engaged, representative, and accessible democracy. Recent work includes supporting state advocacy campaigns to restore voting rights and guarantee ballot access to incarcerated voters, educate the public about ranked-choice voting, and stop state pre-emption that prevents communities from.

New Mexico

New Mexico First convened a statewide task force in October, 2020 to develop recommendations about political redistricting. Retired New Mexico Supreme Court Justice Edward Chavez and retired New Mexico Court of Appeals Judge Roderick Kennedy were selected as the taskforce’s co-chairs, which will begin convening virtually on October 5, 2020. Interest in.

Remote

I led the design, execution, implementation, and management of the democracy project. The Project empowers and emboldens values-aligned, state legislators to be dynamic advocates for a powerful, inclusive, and participatory democracy.

Santa Fe, New Mexico Area

Led agency to improve outcomes and increase equity for higher education students in New Mexico; led work to improve recruitment, retention and graduation by improving practices in adult education, college preparation, financial aid, data and policy divisions; improved public outreach and tribal relations throughout the department’s programs; ensured a.

Santa Fe, New Mexico Area

• Led the foundation’s good government reform work. Developed the strategy and supported a portfolio of grantees to accomplish an ambitious policy agenda to reduce the impact of money in politics in New Mexico. We.
• Increased the transparency of the movement of money in elections and lobbying
• Built an ethics infrastructure that covers elected officials
• Expanded the viability and availability of public financing in Santa Fe at the statewide level
• Implemented ranked-choice voting
• Increased support for journalism

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

• Provided data, research and policy services to the 501(c)(4) table in order to improve access and participation in elections, advance a progressive policy agenda, and win elections.
• Convened a diverse group of stakeholders in the NM Election Administration Coalition to improve access to voting and election integrity and modernize elections in NM
• Worked with legislators, government officials and community organizations to find solutions to voting and election challenges
• Conducted voter file analyses to determine investment levels into priority state races
• Collected and presented new polling, messaging and voter persuasion and turnout program data
• Appointed by the NM Democratic Party to observe the 1 month long Sandoval County recount and the 1 day Bernalillo County recount

Santa Fe, New Mexico Area

Espanola, NM

Duties included: 1) Developing a new public policy institute with the mission to develop the next generation of leaders. Duties include program planning and development, marketing, partnering with diverse groups of stakeholders to convene policy forums, research presentations, and leadership workshops.2) Planning, conducting and evaluating training and.

My responsibilities included providing the following: coaching, leadership, and support to high schools transforming into small schools and small learning communities. Responsibilities included:-Leading teams of diverse stakeholders, including school staff, students, families, and partner organizations through the school design process-Building in-school.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

2001-2003-Analyst, Small Learning Communities and Comprehensive School Reform Program. Acted as primary CSR contact and regional SLC contact in provision of on-going legal, budget, compliance monitoring, and other technical assistance to schools, districts and state agencies. Responsibilities included:- Assisting over 90% of states achieve compliance with.

Washington, DC

Positions held included:Researcher and Lobbyist for Democracy Campaign. -Conducted research on history of spending limits in 50 states-Analyzed correlation between spending limits and electoral rates of competitiveness-Lobbied Congress to change campaign finance reform lawsField Manager. Managed campaign to strengthen public health laws.-Trained teams to.

Master In Public Policy, Public Policy

Activities and Societies: Senior Editor. Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy Institute of Politics Native Nations Institute consultant

Bachelor'S Degree, Public Policy, Women'S Studies