Rural Matters Issue 3

Did You Know? RCAP selected its first female and person of color to lead the RCAP network.

After months of searching, the RCAP board selected Olga Morales-Pate as its next CEO! She is an experienced environmental justice and rural community development leader ready to take RCAP and the rural communities it serves to the next level. A familiar face to many of you from her 19 years at RCAC, Olga is an accomplished and experienced leader on environmental justice and rural community development issues. She has been the assistant director of Community and Environmental Programs at RCAC since 2018. She led a team of 32 and managed an annual portfolio of nearly $10 million in grants and contracts. Olga developed and led RCAC’s Regionalization Program and authored legislation establishing the New Mexico Colonias Infrastructure Fund, which has secured $144.6 million for 263 infrastructure projects since 2011. She also served on the EPA’s National Drinking Water Advisory Council (NDWAC) as an appointee of President George W. Bush, where she established strong working relationships with the agency while leading advisory efforts on issues such as climate change, hydraulic fracturing, carbon sequestration, and harmful algae blooms and cyanotoxins, among others. Keep an eye out for an in-depth interview with Olga in the next edition of Rural Matters .

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