Shaky NM Water Infrastructure; Power in Powwows

This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Gwyneth Doland interviews NMPBS General Manager Franz Joachim, who lays out the facts on what President Trump’s executive order to end federal funding for public media could mean here at home.  

The dam that creates the El Vado Reservoir on the Rio Chama Tributary is leaking — and in dire need of repair. Correspondent Elizabeth Miller recently spoke with water management expert Adrian Oglesby about the dam, as well as his concerns over the water outlook for New Mexico this summer.  

In collaboration with New Mexico In Depth, Indigenous Affairs Reporter Bella Davis visits a powwow dance class to explore the importance of finding community in urban spaces as well as powwow etiquette.  

A new exhibit called ‘the bomb’ has opened at the University of New Mexico’s Zimmerman Library. The exhibit takes visitors through a series of images, archival footage and film clips documenting the unsettling history and uncertain future of the world’s most dangerous machine: nuclear weapons. KUNM News Director Megan Kamerick sits down with the exhibit’s two creators and a university professor to discuss the project.

Host: Nash Jones 

Segments: 
NMPBS General Manager on Proposed Federal Cuts to Public Media
Correspondent: Gwyneth Doland
Guest: Franz Joachim, General Manager and CEO, NMPBS

Failing Water Architecture in NM
Correspondent: Elizabeth Miller
Guest: Adrian Oglesby, Director, UNM Utton Transboundary Resources Center

The Power of Powwows
Host: Bella Davis (Yurok)
Director: Joey Dunn (Diné)
Producers: Bella Davis (Yurok), Joey Dunn (Diné), Benjamin C Yazza (Diné)
Guests:  
Niko DeRoin-Silva (Otoe-Missouria / Choctaw)
Juanita Growing Thunder (Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes)
Jessa Rae Growing Thunder (Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes)
Wil Gover (Pawnee / Tohono O’odham / Cherokee)

‘the bomb’ Exhibit Shows the Horror of Nuclear Weapons
Correspondent: Megan Kamerick
Guests:
Eric Schlosser, Co-Creator, Journalist and Author, ‘the bomb’ Exhibit
Smriti Keshari, Co-creator and Film Director, ‘the bomb’ Exhibit
Myrriah Gómez, Associate Professor, University of New Mexico Honors College