Former New Mexico State Sen. Dede Feldman will discuss her new memoir ‘Ten More Doors: Politics and the Path to Change’ 7-8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27 via Zoom. Courtesy image
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Mesa Public Library presents an author talk with former New Mexico State Sen. Dede Feldman based on her new memoir “Ten More Doors: Politics and the Path to Change”.
This timely event, that coincides with the 2022 New Mexico Legislative Session, will be livestreamed via Zoom 7-8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27.
Feldman’s book charts an inspirational path for anyone who wants to make a difference, start a campaign, advance a cause, or just stay in the fight.
Arriving to New Mexico as a stranger in 1975, Feldman’s path to change takes her through alternative newspapers, adobe construction, women’s campaigns, and heated grassroots politics. Door-to-door, she learns the wisdom of the street in Albuquerque’s North Valley, where matanzas and sweathouses reveal an eclectic mix of old and new, Hispanic and Anglo.
Once inside the legislature, she takes on the big issues amid conflict and corruption, developing the grit to persist in a long game that lasts beyond the Santa Fe Roundhouse. Feldman’s honest—and sometimes hilarious—account of neighborhood encounters holds lessons for activists, journalists, aspiring candidates and ordinary citizens on the path to political change.
Her memoir—and her life—show us how the path is never straight, and it calls on all of us to make a difference, starting at the ground level, door by door. Feldman spent 16 years in the New Mexico Senate becoming a champion of democracy, healthcare, and consumer reforms.
A former journalist and teacher, she is the author of two other books, Inside the New Mexico Senate: Boots, Suits, and Citizens (UNM Press 2014) and Another Way Forward: Grassroots Solutions from New Mexico.
This program is free and open to the public, is made possible by the Friends of Los Alamos County Libraries, and will be conducted online via the Zoom platform. To obtain access to this program registration is required to receive the meeting link. Register through the event calendar at LosAlamosLibrary.org or call 505.662.8257 for assistance.
