Task Force Members

• Shelly Bucher, LMSW - Director, Substitute Care Advisory Council
• Rosenda Chavez-Lara, JD – Family Law Attorney
• Jesse Clifton, JD - Attorney, Disability Rights New Mexico
• Cristen Conley, JD, CWLS, - Task Force Chair, and Director of the Corinne Wolfe Center for Child and Family Justice
• Alison Endicott-Quinones, JD - Legal Director, Advocacy Inc.
• Bette Fleishman, JD - Executive Director, Pegasus Legal Services for Children
• Matthew J. Cockman, JD – Law Office of the Public Defender, 11th Judicial DistrictBeth Gillia, JD, MA – Executive Director, Office of Family Representation and Advocacy
• Shira Greenberg - Founder & Artistic Director, Keshet Dance & Center for the Arts/Keshet Arts & Justice Initiative
• Leslie Jones, JD, CWLS - Legal Services Division Director, Office of Family Representation and Advocacy
• Hilari Lipton, JD - Director of Law and Policy, NM Appleseed Senator Linda Lopez - New Mexico State Senator, Dist. 11
• Mary McQueeney, JD – Chief Children’s Court Attorney, Children, Youth and Families Department, State of New Mexico
• Catherine Pavelski, CPSW, - Family Peer Support Navigator, Office of Family Representation and Advocacy
• Judge Alma Roberson, JD - Children’s Court Judge, Second Judicial District
• Judge John E. Romero, JD - Children’s Court Judge, ret’d, Second Judicial District
• Juvenile Public Defender position - open
• Brandie White, Program Director, Mesilla Valley CASA
• Jacqueline Yalch, Past President, NM Tribal Indian Child Welfare Consortium
• Kathleen Sabo, JD – Task Force Coordinator
• Tony Ortíz, JD – Task Force Staff
• Carolyn Casillas - CYFD/JJS-Field Associate Deputy Director-Southern Region