Profiles: Well-being

Meet some of the remarkable Taos women working in health and education today. Many of these women work at Holy Cross Hospital here in Taos. Read about more remarkable women on Holy Cross's website.

The sisters' mother was a nurse for thirty years and always encouraged Jessica and Josephine in the same direction.

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Lorrie and her husband spent their honeymoon in Taos shortly after she received a MFA in painting. They moved here because of the easy paced...

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Practicing in Taos allows Linda to fill the role she wants as a healthcare provider – educating patients on medicine care, outpatient...

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Dedicated to helping Taos youth, Cynthia founded the local Girl Scouts Chapter in 1979 and has been a dedicated ice skating coach since 1994.

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Not only a passionate and accomplished emergency care practitioner, Christa is a serious cyclist. This year alone she has ridden in five...

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It is her work developing and teaching Taos Rocks Hot Stone Therapy that Ana considers most noteworthy.

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Kat is known for her work the Battered Women’s Project, the Children’s Saferoom, and the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Program as...

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Interested in using art as a tool to work with teenagers, Joleen created Evolving Creative Opportunities (ECO), an innovative arts...

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Lucy is author of Clinical Mastery in the Treatment of Myofascial Pain (2005) which has been translated into numerous languages.
 

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Aura is one of those people fortunate enough to have found a true passion to build a business around. As a yoga teacher and personal trainer,...

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Josie has been seeking peace and justice and the well being of all humankind for as long as she can remember. As a practicing...

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Early experience working on ski patrols informed Dr. Lynch's dedication to emergency medicine and when she first skied Taos, she . . .

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The sisters teach Zumba, a dance-based fitness program set to Latin and international music.

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With a physicist for a father and psychotherapist/peace activist for a mother, Dr. Mohling was raised by two people with rich careers that...

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Kathy has been mother, teacher, service provider, flamenco dancer – but these days, you can find her running the Taos First Steps program.

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For as long as she can remember, soccer has been Katlin Okamoto’s passion. For her the game is alternatively a driving force, a getaway, a...

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Loretta is the first physician in her family, which has a tradition of curanderas. The integration of medicine and healing traditions is...

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Monique has found a way to turn her two great avocations—writing and yoga—into vocations.

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Lucy directs the youth art education program at Harwood Museum of Art as well as programming for the Arthur Bell Auditorium.

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In her outstanding career, Roselyn has worked with special needs and underserved populations, children in foster care, and individuals...

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Now an emergency room nurse at Holy Cross Hospital, Annette began her medical career as a paramedic in 1985.

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Kirstie designed the Integrative Massage Therapy Program for UNM-Taos, where she also co-designed the Yoga Teacher Training Program.

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Tomacita grew up in Taos, the product of two cultures and a family that set no limits on what she could achieve.

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Sylvia always knew she was going to be a doctor but she credits her grandmother Simona, who was a folk healer, for teaching her about...

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