Due to illness, today’s League of Women Voters of Los Alamos “Lunch with a Leader” is canceled.

LWV News:

The League of Women Voters of Los Alamos (LWV) monthly “Lunch with a Leader” is noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15 at the Unitarian Church.

This month’s leader is Executive Director Rachel Mohr-Richards of the Juvenile Justice Advisory Board (JJAB). 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. The couple 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 ever Resource Specialist Program Manager in 2021. She became Executive Director in January 2023, and has facilitated JJAB to carry out its mission of providing programs to the children, youth and families of Los Alamos that build resiliency.

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