Our Board

Felice Gonzales is an original founder of NewMexicoWomen.Org. Having worked with international and national NGOs in the field of women’s reproductive health and social justice, she continues this emphasis in her home state of New Mexico. Felice is a former lawyer, worked previously in real estate, and today, as minimally as possible, continues to assist in family related businesses

Kate Ferlic is an attorney practicing in the areas of civil and business litigation, civil rights, catastrophic injury / wrongful death, constitutional law (election and first amendment), class actions and professional license defense. Her practice takes her throughout the state of New Mexico and all over the United States. She is motivated by the belief that the law is powerful tool for change, whether it be exposing misconduct and corruption or enforcing a client’s rights. Prior to founding Egolf + Ferlic + Harwood, Kate served as special counsel to Governor Bill Richardson during his administration. She also has worked as a lawyer for the New Mexico Legislature and as General Counsel of the New Mexico Economic Development Department, the New Mexico Film Office and Spaceport America. She brings her prior experience as a facilitator, policy advocate and journalist to her practice.

Patricia Trujillo, Ph.D. is the Director of Equity and Diversity and an associate professor of English and Chicana/o Studies at Northern New Mexico College (Northern). She was born and raised in the Española Valley, NM. She earned her doctorate in U.S. Latina/o Literature at the University of Texas in San Antonio and her Master’s Degree in Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska, and was a dual major in English and Law & Society at New Mexico State University. Dr. Trujillo is invested in community-based action research including the work she does as faculty advisor for the AFSC@Sostenga Farm at Northern, and serves on the boards of the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area and Tewa Women United. Dr. Trujillo was recently named the Creative Writing Editor of the Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, a peer-reviewed journal housed at Arizona State University.

Born in 1944, brought up in New York City. At age eleven Joan was taught how to make a pin hole camera with a shoe box. She took her primitive construction, along with her deep curiosity, to wander down the city’s streets, Central Park or just simply the subway. She came to understand that she was making mental snapshots in order to create sense out of chaos. She has exhibited her photographs and photographic monoprints in several galleries, mainly in Santa Fe and New York City. A highlight of her career was the invitation from the United Nations to be part of a “70 women from 50 countries” exhibit, in which she showed her images of India’s female garbage workers. Her work has been featured in Ms., Men’s Vogue and Town & Country magazines. Her Memoir, The Magnolia Code, published in June, 2020, received an Independent Press Award in the genre of Memoir. It is a story of the mystery of belonging, and the rules we adhere to or dismiss, with consequences to both.

Jacqueline Lovelace Johnson was born and raised in Albuquerque. She attended Mills College, Oakland, CA and graduated from University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado with a degree in English Literature and Comparative Literature. She worked in Washington, D.C. from 1971 to 1975 where she worked as a press secretary for Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-NM) followed by her work as Press Secretary for the Senate Interior Committee. She moved to Denver in 1976 and worked as Press Secretary for Rep. Tim Wirth’s reelection campaign. Later became an Editor of Colorado Magazine and Colorado Business Magazine prior to starting her own publishing company, The Lovelace Corporation in 1979, publishing corporate newsletters and two lifestyle magazines. After, she moved to Kansas City, KS. where she owned a retail shop for a few years and then immersed herself in politics both as a fundraiser and strategist.  She also chaired several galas for everything from the Ballet to the Symphony to the Kansas City Zoo. For the past 25 years she has served as Chairman of the Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute.  In 2022, they merged with New York Medical Hospital and Tuoro University.  Lovelace will remain the same but she now serves on the new board. Her husband Lynn Johnson is a lawyer in Kansan City, MO.  Her son, Randy Lovelace, is married to Paige and they have two girls, ages 1 and 3.