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Christy Tafoya, New Mexico State Parks director, will retire at the end of June. Tafoya joined State Parks in 1998 as the division’s first archaeologist and is the first woman to serve as director. (Courtesy of New Mexico State Parks)
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Christy Tafoya learned about New Mexico’s state parks from the ground up. The State Parks director, who will retire at the end of June, joined the division in 1998 as its first archaeologist.
In 2015, Tafoya became the first woman appointed to direct the department, which oversees 35 parks. She was reappointed in 2019 by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.
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“Resource protection and education are a really big part of our mission and my mission,” Tafoya said. “I feel our agency has moved in a direction to not only provide great outdoor recreation experiences, but to protect what ....

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