Leanna McClure - Oglala Lakota and Mescalero Apache – is an accomplished leader in non-profit leadership, instruction, and curricula design. Ms. McClure is a doctoral candidate of Educational Leadership and Organizational Transformation through Northeastern University. She holds an undergraduate degree in Ethnic Studies and Anthropology and two Master degrees from Willamette University, in additional to a Diagnostician Certification through the University of New Mexico.

Leanna is originally from Pecos, NM, and has dedicated her career to working alongside underrepresented communities, cultivating alternative learning opportunities, and empowering BIPOC. Leanna served as the Program Manager for The Food Depot and as Tribal Liaison and Ambassador Fellow with the Department of Education in Washington, D.C. She worked as Community and Curricula Project Manager for the Indian Education Curriculum Initiative of NM and as Intervention and Assessment Coordinator for Kha’p’o Community School (KCS) of Santa Clara Pueblo. She also taught as a Special Education and Math teacher at KCS, the Santa Fe Indian School, Von Tobel Middle School in Las Vegas, NV and Chemawa Indian School in Salem, OR.

Since 2008, McClure has worked with youth, being passionate about culturally-grounded, equitable access to learning for all. “I am trilled to join the STEM Santa Fe team and engage with community around meaningful project-based and hands-on learning programming for the children and young adults of Northern New Mexico. Giving back to the area where I was raised and offering dynamic options for future generations are of the utmost importance in my lifework. Fostering curiosity for learning through STEM/STEAM activities allows for students to develop critical reasoning skills and identify potential avenues of career and educational offerings beyond high school. Addressing the needs of underrepresented populations in STEM is essential to advancement for our state. Wopila tanka//many thanks for the opportunity to be a part of such critical work.”

JC Ramirez raised in Santa Fe holds a Media Arts and Communications Degree after attending UNM and SFCC. His STEM background includes being a mentor for various STEM camps and college readiness programs such as AVID around Santa Fe and Santa Fe Public Schools from 2017 to the present. Former jobs include Application Technician working on space-grade instruments for aerospace organizations, and his own marketing company Momentos Marketing servicing community organizations throughout the US.

JC has worked with STEM Santa Fe as a marketing and program manager for Scaffold and has assisted STEM Santa Fe programs including STEM Pathway For Girls, Meow Wolf "Make and Believe Time", and all summer programs including Aviation and Aerospace Camp, 3D Camps in San Ildefonso Pueblo and Santa Fe, and more. JC's passions include filmmaking, community art events, and learning about STEM.

Kateri Pena (Santa Clara Pueblo) graduated from the Santa Fe Indian School in 2023, where she developed a strong passion for environmental science, which she explored through her Senior Honors Project.
Her project focused on mycology and working with a local community garden and educating the public on the importance of mycelium and its benefits.
She also began taking dual credit classes in the realm of digital media. Since then, she’s been attending Santa Fe Community College to pursue a degree in Film where she’s had the opportunity to explore new technologies and equipment as well as collaborate with others to create a series of creative and documentative works.
At STEM Santa Fe she will be contributing to our mission of inspiring and educating the next generation of STEM leaders.

Born and raised in Santa Fe, Etta is interested in community- and culturally-conscious science education. She is an entering PhD student at Northwestern University, studying Learning Science with a focus on K-12 science curriculum. Etta holds a BA in Cognitive Science from Wellesley College.

Etta has worked on ensuring Aviation Camp at the Jet Center, 3D printing camps at both San Ildefonso Pueblo and Santa Fe, and all programs run smoothly and is co-leading a Meow Wolf program about oil spills and plans to work on a Kinesiology and Exercise Science at the end of the summer.

Alicia Naranjo is a tribal member of San Ildefonso Pueblo, NM. She is currently an Educational Advisor for the Educational Opportunity Center (EOC). Alicia is also a graduate of Northern NM College, holding a Bachelor's degree in Integrated Studies with an emphasis on Pueblo Indian Studies and an Associate's degree in Arts in Elementary Education.

Theodore McDonald was born in Santa Fe and spent some of his upbringing living in Nambe. He has worked at various STEM summer camps and programs serving New Mexico students. Other past work includes being a tutor and teaching assistant for computer science during his time at New Mexico Tech and interning at Los Alamos Lab for a few summers. He first did work for STEM Santa Fe back in 2019 as a mentor and has been assisting with project development and providing technical support, including building a Rubik’s cube-solving robot for demos.

He led this summer’s sundial 3D printing camp at San Ildefonso Pueblo, as well as a 3D printing camp at the Higher Education Center. He is motivated by his experience of being inspired by STEM summer camps and programs as a child and the desire to pass on that opportunity to other New Mexico students. Some of his passions include the natural world, photography and hands-on projects.

Originally from Nambe, New Mexico, Lourdes LeDoux is a second year college student at the University of New Mexico. Lourdes is an intern for the summer of 2024. She has worked on this summers Aviation Camp at the Jet Center, 3D printing camps at both San Ildefonso Pueblo and Santa Fe, is co-leading a Meow Wolf program about oil spills and plans to work on a Kinesiology and Exercise Science at the end of the summer.

In addition, Lourdes is interested in education and journalism, she has been a ballet dancer for about sixteen years, and enjoys traveling and meeting new people.

Isabel Rodriguez is currently working as an intern with STEM Santa Fe. She holds a BA in Drawing and a BS in Physical Geography and Conservation from Adams State University (2021) and has earned her FDM 3D printing Master Badge from the New Collar Network (2024). Isabel has previously worked as a visiting teaching artist in the ArtWorks program, as well as a summer camp educator at the Randall Davey Audubon Center.

She looks forward to helping out with the STEM Santa Fe summer camps, especially the 3D printing camps where she will be utilizing her experiences in art and science. Isabel is a Girl Scout Gold Award recipient. She was a youth Santera in the Traditional Spanish Market for ten years. As a multidisciplinary visual artist who has had art pieces on display at the Memento Mori gallery (Denver), Site Santa Fe Museum (Santa Fe), she has completed a short documentary for the Little Globe 2023 Community Storytellers program.

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