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The members of the Board are:
Left to right 1st row: Ted Dimond, Kristen Fielding, Hilary Cushing-Murray, Martha Fielding
2cd row: Elizabeth Gilmore, Kathy Alcon, Rebeca Romero, Marcy Andrew

 

Biographies

Kristen Fielding, Treasurer

Kristen grew up in Monticello, NY, a small town in the Catskill Mountains.  Kristen earned a B.A. in Accounting from the State University of New York at Binghamton and is a licensed CPA.   She has 10 years of accounting experience.  She started her accounting career as an auditor for Ernst & Young in Denver where she worked for two years.  Kristen then moved to Taos, NM to work as the Controller for Taos Ski Valley, Inc.  After 6 years with Taos Ski Valley, Kristen joined Siriusware, Inc., a software company, in 2002.  Her favorite pastimes include skiing, biking, hiking, running and kayaking. 

 

Marcy Andrew, Secretary

Marcy came to Taos in 1994 from New York via South Dakota, Oregon, West Africa and Alaska.  She found her home here as well as her calling to be a midwife.  She did her apprenticeship at the Northern New Mexico Midwifery Center and has been practicing as a midwife and teaching apprentices there since 2001.  She has also worked as a teacher’s aid at the local Waldorf- inspired school, has been a foster parent to several children and has worked as a midwife in the Philippines.  She loves to create art and to spend her days off in the mountains and is currently in the process of adopting a baby from Guatemala.

 

Kathy Alcon

Kathy is a registered Physical Therapist.  She received her degree from the University of Central Kansas.  She is licensed in three states, New Mexico, Illinois, and Arkansas.  She owns and operates Morning Light Physical Therapy for Women.  She has 26 years experience in a variety of settings including hospital, home health, nursing home and extensively in out patient orthopedics.

  In the last 7 years she has specialized in the area of women’s health.  She created specific protocols for common problems that face women:  fibromyalgia, osteoperosis, urinary incontinence, pelvic floordysfunction, post-mastectomy/breast reconstruction, obstetrics, diabetes, and the needs of the female athlete.  She also works with PMS, menopause, and painful menstruation.  She uses a holistic approach to treatment, working to achieve balance between the mind, body and spirit. 

Kathy believes education and prevention are the key to health and wellness.  She has been quoted to say, “If I treat a person, I help them today, but if I teach that person I help them for their lifetime.  She provides traditional modalities and exercise but offers many extras such as weight loss programs, stress management/relaxation, soul retrieval, and guided imagery.

Kathy recently returned to her home state of New Mexico to fulfill her dream of creating Morning Light, a safe place where women can come to heal.  She devides her time between patient care and lecturing in the area of health and wellness.  In her free time Kathy enjoys gardening, reading, and hiking.  She volunteers her time to many causes promoting women and children.

 

 

Rebeca Romero Rainey

Rebeca Romero Rainey is a 1993 graduate of Taos High School.  She graduated from Wellesley College in Boston Massachusetts in 1997.    At that time she returned home to Taos to work at Centinel Bank.  In 1999 she was promoted to President and CEO of the bank. 

At age 22 she became the youngest bank president in the nation.  Stories about her appeared in numerous publications to include Fortune magazine and the front page of the Wall Street Journal. 

Rebeca serves on numerous local and state level boards.  She has received the Governor’s award for outstanding NM women.  In 2003 Hispanic business magazine named her one of the 80 most elite Hispanic women business leaders, and the US Banker magazine ranked her as one of the 50 most powerful women in banking.  Today Rebeca holds the title of Board Chair and CEO of the bank.  She is also a new mother of a baby girl.

 

Martha Lee Fielding

MARTHA LEE FIELDING was born in 1949 in Orem, Utah, the youngest girl in a family of six children. Her parents moved from Utah to Connecticut in 1961, giving her the opportunity to taste and enjoy a broader intellectual and social experience. Always very stubborn and self-willed, she secretly determined at a young age that she would travel the world, an adventure she undertook in 1968. It whetted her desire to understand life and to find a purpose and a goal that would contribute in a worthy fashion to her perceived needs of the earth and its inhabitants. After her extensive world travels she settled in Boston, Massachusetts, where she briefly attended university and worked for a number of
firms to no great satisfaction. In 1974 she had the opportunity to purchase Redwing Book Company from its partnership owners. She incorporated the business and ran its retail and wholesale sales divisions which specialized in books categorized at that time as “New Age” and “Holistic.” She partnered with her husband, Robert Felt, beginning in 1978, and in 1982 they sold their two retail stores (in Boston and Harvard Square, Cambridge) to concentrate exclusively on publishing and distribution of books in acupuncture, Chinese medicine, and complementary medicine.


In 2003 an unexpected life-change tornado picked them up from Massachusetts and landed them and their business intact in Taos, New Mexico. From there they continue their ambitious but arcane publishing adventures, founded on the criteria of university scholarship, the power of shared technical knowledge, and the safeguards of peer review, with the desire to honor both the East Asian respect for language, tradition, and nature, and the West's commitment to science.

Martha is the mother of two fine young men, Robert and Dylan, ages 25 and 11, both of whom were born at home with the aid of amazing midwives, and stepmother to Kristopher, age 28, a gifted artist and musician, and a perceptive and conscientious contributor to the family business. She has taken advantage of the access to nature provided by living in Taos to indulge her enjoyment of gardening and her youngest son’s love of pets. Should you stop by her home, there is almost always a basket of tomatoes, a string of peppers, a bouquet of celery, or even a kitten or puppy to take home.