VOL. 30 AMERICA

Sarah Boisvert has over 30 years of experience bridging the commercialization of high technology products and workforce training.

Building upon graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University, she co-founded Potomac Photonics, Inc., inventor & manufacturer of an ultraviolet laser used in LASIK eye surgery and laser machine tools for the medical device, micro-electronics, and aerospace industries. 

After exiting Potomac Photonics, Sarah consulted for MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms and the Fab Foundation, helping build the international Fab Lab Network. She then founded the non-profit New Collar Network, a recognized Fab Lab organization, to foster entrepreneurship and workforce training for New Collar job skills.  In 2017, Sarah opened a fab lab in Santa Fe, NM for in-person workforce training in digital manufacturing.

With funding from America Makes, her team developed New Collar Digital Badge micro-certifications to verify skills for jobs including CAD designers, laser, CNC, and 3D Printing operators and service technicians.  The badges are issued by the non-profit New Collar Network at 6 national locations, and were approved by the US Dept. of Labor as the basis of the nation’s first 3DPrinting Technician Registered Apprenticeship

Sarah’s latest venture, NewCollarAI, utilizes custom Small Language Models to create AI Assistants specifically for CAD design and 3D Printing. In 2026 she opened a 2nd Santa Fe Fab Lab at the New Mexico Innovation Hub dedicated to providing apprentices with real-world digital manufacturing experience serving the startup ecosystem.

Sarah is a Fellow and Past President of the Laser Institute of America and an Ambassador for America Makes, a part of the DOD’s Manufacturing USA Institutes. She serves on the Northern New Mexico Local Workforce Board, and the World Economic Forum’s Augmented Worker Committee. Her books, The New Collar Workforce and People of the New Collar Workforce, will be followed by a new audio digital download, Ditch Degrees! In fall 2026.

Ronayne (Ronie) Dalton received her B.A. in English and her M.A. in Communicative Disorders, but  has always been involved in the arts, whether creating and exhibiting her own work, serving on the Mill Valley Art Commission, and curator for the Throckmorton Theater galleries in Mill Valley, California,. When her son, James Andrew Dalton, an infantry soldier, unexpectedly took his life after his second tour in Iraq, she moved near Fort Benning, Ga. and developed an exhibit called “A Break in the Battle”/Tattoo Project Fort Benning, which has been shown at various venues in Georgia and California, including Fort Benning, downtown Columbus, Ga., Columbus Museum of Art, Throckmorton Theater, Mill Valley,Ca. and “Echoes of War” Playhouse Arts, Arcata, Ca.

Carina Evangelista arrived in New York from Manila in 1993 with $300 and a laundry bag for luggage. Her first concurrent six jobs comprised being the English tutor to her fellow graduate students in art history, ghost writing for a Japanese independent curator, archiving the work of an artist whose finances had been mishandled by her gallery, being the night-shift studio assistant at Sculpture Center, serving among the three inaugural diversity interns at The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), and selling flowers at a Korean deli where during slow days she taught English to her Latino co-workers for free upon their request. Juggling all these jobs meant she was gripped with indecision about what to do on her first day off on Thanksgiving in her first two years as an immigrant. [She plucked wildflowers at a nearby park in Queens and took a happy nap.]

More than three decades hence, she has held curatorial positions at MoMA, the Delaware Contemporary, and the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center. She also served as Deputy Director and subsequently Interim Director for the Museum and Global Artistic Programs of Asia Society. Among the exhibitions she has organized is “HOME1947” around Oscar- and Emmy-awarded filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s exploration of the stories of millions displaced in 1947 during the creation of the independent nation-states, India and Pakistan.

Evangelista has also served as writer, guest curator, and lecturer in the Philippines over the decades. She curated an exhibition of Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings for which she commissioned the choral performance of the Grammy-awarded “Partita for 8 Voices” by Caroline Shaw. She has also served as writer, translator, and narrator for Philippine documentaries. Her creative practice has included exhibiting in Manila and being librettist for a rock opera.

Evangelista is currently Director at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art. She continues to embrace the challenge of grasping the complexities of Thanksgiving.

Rev. Dr. Angela Williams Gorrell is a speaker, consultant, and Partner-Scholar at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. She leads retreats, lectures, and workshops across the United States and around the world on living open to joy, discerning a life worth living, and navigating complex choices.

She currently serves as part-time pastor of Albuquerque Mennonite Church and teaches public speaking at Santa Fe Community College. Dr. Gorrell has previously taught at Yale University, Baylor University, and at Fuller and McCormick Seminaries. Her research has been featured in major media outlets including The New York Times and The Washington Post.

She is the author of three books, Always On, The Gravity of Joy, and her newest release, Braving Difficult Decisions: What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do.

Machiko Harada is a Japanese curator, writer, and cultural mediator based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was raised in Japan where she studied art history and aesthetics. After extended curatorial studies at CCA Kitakyushu and curatorial training at Stichting De Appel in Amsterdam, she curated various exhibitions and art projects in Japan and Europe. She was also the chief curator at the Akiyoshidai International Art Village and ran their international art residency. She devoted her time to working closely with interdisciplinary artists in realizing their experimental projects, which at times involved diverse research as well as engaging local communities. She has been seeking to develop a curatorial methodology based on her lifelong learning of the tea-ceremony.

She received the Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators in 2023-24 from Hyperallergic. She is currently curating Reclaiming the Future: The Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration, a contemporary art exhibition that opens September
5th, 2026 at Vladem Contemporary.

Jennifer Hasty is the Supervisor of Wonders on Wheels mobile museum, a program of the NM Department of Cultural Affairs. She is also a cultural anthropologist with over twenty years of experience teaching and researching the intersection of culture and democracy.

Jonathan Hertzel is a sculptor, painter, educator, and mixed-media artist whose work explores history in the context of our contemporary society. For more than forty years, he has created large-scale bronze sculptures, paintings, and installations that examine the cultural, social, and political forces shaping contemporary life. Originally trained as a historian before studying sculpture and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Hertzel approaches art as a form of historical inquiry. He views his sculptures as monuments to the age in which we live—markers that reflect both the aspirations and anxieties of contemporary society. Works such as Falling Man, Reversal, and Twin Serpents explore themes of uncertainty, contradiction, resilience, and transformation, inviting viewers to consider their place within a rapidly changing world. His sculptures have been exhibited in museums, sculpture gardens, and public spaces, including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, the James A. Michener Art Museum, Grounds For Sculpture, and the Santa Fe Botanical Garden. Since relocating to Santa Fe in 2015, he has continued to develop projects that combine sculpture, painting, photography, and audience participation.

Underlying much of Hertzel’s work is a belief that art serves as both witness and storyteller. Whether drawing on contemporary events, cultural change, or family history, his sculptures seek to create a dialogue between past and present. Recent works such as The Bishop’s Eye and The American Infinite reflect his ongoing interest in how individual lives intersect with larger historical forces and how those stories continue to shape our understanding of ourselves and our time.

Dr. Kim Lanoy-Sandoval is the Executive Director of Future Focused Education, a statewide nonprofit working to improve outcomes for young people across New Mexico by reimagining how education connects to opportunity, community, and economic mobility. With more than 25 years of experience as an educator and systems leader, she brings together schools, communities, policymakers, philanthropy, and industry to expand career-connected learning, paid internships, and innovative pathways that help young people thrive. Kim holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Gonzaga University and believes deeply in the power of young people to shape a stronger future for New Mexico and beyond.

Olivia Sloan is currently the Vice President of Native Health Partnerships at Anchorum Health Foundation. Her lifelong work is committed to Native American health equity. Philanthropy has become an opportunity to partner with and serve Native communities, a focus that has shaped her entire career. Olivia has worked with Indigenous communities across the United States from Alaska to Arizona to Washington, D.C., and has collaborated with Tribes nationally and internationally on federal, state and tribal policy, research, and public health.

Born and raised in Santa Fe, Olivia is Diné and Tohono O’odham and is the granddaughter of Arthur Hubbard Sr., a Navajo Code Talker and the first Native person to serve in the Arizona State Senate.

Olivia holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Studies with a focus on international relations from the University of Arizona and a Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. After losing her father to cancer, she expanded her work to include cancer research, earning a nursing degree from Santa Fe Community College. She went on to manage the research program at a community-based cancer center, advancing patient-centered care and authoring grants that strengthened Native patient navigation and access to care.

Amy Farah Weiss is the Founder and Director of Saint Francis Challenge, a nonprofit launched in 2015 to end street homelessness and build a national Resident Steward movement. After receiving 10% of the vote in San Francisco’s 2015 mayoral election, Weiss used the momentum to advance actionable, dignity-centered solutions for people living in and exiting street homelessness. Weiss brings more than two decades of experience designing, implementing, managing, and evaluating social service programs, community initiatives, and housing-related interventions. She holds an undergraduate degree in sociology and a master’s degree in organizational development, and works as a practitioner-researcher focused on values, behavior, belonging, and community design.

Her work began alongside residents of large unsanctioned encampments in San Francisco and has expanded to city-supported pilots and program development in Ojai, California and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Informed by formal study, fieldwork, and formative years living on organic farms and volunteering in healing communities, Weiss emphasizes identifying and practicing values to live by. Through Saint Francis Challenge, she promotes Resident Stewardship as a new American pathway of interdependence: Helping people stabilize, contribute, and belong.