Data over dogma: How to beat poverty in NM
Jenny Ramo would rather talk about her work than about herself – which explains an early morning email: “Having 3 a.m. fears,” she wrote about her interview, “was worrying we just got chatting and didn’t really get to what I am passionate about: permanent and dramatic improvements for children and families.”
Ramo, executive director of New Mexico Appleseed, need not have worried. She jumps at the chance to talk about Appleseed’s work, New Mexico’s poverty challenges and how the state must focus on bipartisan and data-driven solutions in order to change our last in most everything trajectory.
