JJAB Executive Director Rachel Mohr-Richards

LWV News:

The League of Women Voters’ (LWV) community event, “Lunch with a Leader” is set for noon to 1 p.m., April 18 at the Unitarian Church. This is also the LWV annual meeting for League members, which will follow the speaker’s presentation.

Juvenile Justice Advisory Board (JJAB) Executive Director Rachel Mohr-Richards is this month’s speaker. JJAB is a nonprofit organization that funds 15 programs for youth and their families in Los Alamos.

Mohr-Richards was born and raised in Jackson, Mich., where she met her husband Andrew. They moved to New Mexico in 2014 and have two children, Amelia and Simon, as well as a dog named Sophie. 

Prior to joining JJAB, Mohr-Richards worked for eight years in the state child welfare systems in Michigan and New Mexico. She held positions as a Children’s Protective Services Investigator, Placement Worker and Placement Supervisor. Her last position at the Children, Youth and Families Department was as a Child Placement Agency Specialist, where she licensed all the treatment foster care agencies and community homes in the state of New Mexico.

Mohr-Richards joined JJAB in 2020 as a Resource Specialist and became the first Resource Specialist Program Manager in 2021. She became Executive Director in January 2023, leading JJAB in carrying out its mission of providing programs to the children, youth and families of Los Alamos to build resiliency.

In her spare time, Mohr-Richards enjoys traveling, reading mystery novels, teaching Pilates and spending time with her family.