Featured Speaker Liddie Martinez
LWVLA News:
The League of Women Voters of Los Alamos will zoom its monthly “Lunch with a Leader” community meeting at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20.
The featured speaker is Enterprise Bank & Trust Market President and Director of Community Engagement Liddie Martinez.
Martinez was born and raised in Española. She is a member of the New Mexico Senior Management Team at Enterprise Bank, responsible for growth and development of the New Mexico markets.
Prior to joining the bank, Martinez worked as director of Community & Economic Development and Government Relations for SOC Los Alamos, the security subcontractor at Los Alamos National Laboratory. For nearly 20 years, she led the philanthropic programming and investment in the areas of education, economic development and widespread support of the regional non-profit organizations that support the social fabric of many rural communities across the seven northern counties of New Mexico.
Martinez explained that she believes in service to others and being part of the strategic teams that build solutions to enhance the lives of New Mexicans. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham recently appointed Martinez to serve on the New Mexico Economic Recovery Council. Her duties include advising the governor on strategies for gradually reopening New Mexico businesses in a smart, safe and effective manner and helping New Mexico’s economy to grow and thrive as it emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Martinez serves on the boards of Think New Mexico, Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation and United Way of Northern New Mexico.
In her service over the last two decades on local, regional, state, corporate and international boards, she promoted diversity, economic development, leadership development for underrepresented groups and historic and cultural preservation.
Martinez testified before congress in 1998 to secure federal funding for the feasibility study and eventual development and establishment of El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail, a 10-year project she worked on serving as board president the entire 10 years. The near 1,600 mile trail, which was the first international trail ever established, required coordination and collaboration between the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management and El Instituto Nacional de Antropologia y Historia in Mexico, linking 55 historic sites across two nations to establish programming and interpretation. The trail was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2005.
In addition to everything else, Martinez also is an award winning author and writes a monthly food column in the Los Alamos Daily Post in which she shares traditional Northern New Mexican recipes with her readers.
Passionate about cultural preservation, Martinez also embarked on a cookbook project, which she completed in September 2019. The cookbook documents historic Northern New Mexican recipes that have been passed down orally in her family, generation to generation, over the last four centuries.
Since its release last November, The Chile Line: Historic Northern New Mexican Recipes, has earned the Eric Hoffer National Book Award, New Mexico-Arizona Book Association Award and Southwest Book Design and Production Award. The cookbook is available through Los Alamos book publisher Pajarito Press LLC.
Martinez and her husband Rick reside on their family farm in the Española Valley.
Register in advance for the Lunch with a Leader meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkf-2ppj0qHNxeBjcr2xKR6l1bn1FMrUkg
A confirmation email will be sent to all who register. For any issues, call or text 505.231.8286 or email kaskacayman@gmail.com.
