Task Force Members

  • Justin Boyd, JD – Chief General Counsel, Children, Youth and Families Department, State of New Mexico
  • Shelly Bucher, LMSW - Director, Substitute Care Advisory Council
  • Carolyn Casillas - Field Associate Deputy Director-Southern Region, Children, Youth and Families Department, State of New Mexico, Juvenile Justice Services
  • Rosenda Chavez-Lara, JD – Family Law Attorney
  • 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 District
  • Beth 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
  • Senator Linda Lopez - New Mexico State Senator, Dist. 11
  • Mary McQueeney, JD – 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
  • Amanda Romero, JD – Chief Children’s Court Attorney, Protective Services Division, Children, Youth and Families Department, State of New Mexico
  • Judge John J. Romero, JD - Children’s Court Judge, ret’d, Second Judicial District
  • Matthew Cockman, JD – 11th Judicial District Defender as Juvenile Public Defender
  • Lorilynn Violanta – Co-Executive Director, NMCAN as representative for institutional membership
  • Brandie White - Program Director, Mesilla Valley CASA
  • Jacqueline Yalch, MSW - Social Services Director, Isleta Social Services and Past President, NM Tribal Indian Child Welfare Consortium
  • Kathleen Sabo, JD – Task Force Coordinator
  • Tony Ortíz, JD – Task Force Staff