This week on "Report from Santa Fe" a special encore presentation with DeDe Feldman, discussing her book ":Inside the New Mexico Senate: Boots, Suits and Citizens." Elected to New Mexico's state senate in 1996, Dede Feldman faced the challenges that confront state legislators around the country along with some that are uniquely New Mexican. In this forthright account of the workings of New Mexico's legislature, she reveals how the work of governing is actually accomplished. Feldman retired from the Senate in 2012. Watch Episode

This week REPORT FROM SANTA FE presents an encore program with Gail Sheehy, the iconic author whose book "Passages" was on the New York Times best-seller list for 3 years and was named one of the "Ten Most Influential Books of our Time" by the Library of Congress. This week "Report from Santa Fe' is pre-empted due to seasonal pledge drives on KNME and KRWG. KENW and DishTV and DirectTV wil feature this encore presentation of Gail Sheehy discussing her inspiring new book "Passages in Caregiving." More

Dr. Sandra Steingraber is a biologist, author, and cancer survivor. She is called "the new Rachel Carson." Steingraber writes and lectures on the environmental links to cancer and her book "Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment" has also been made into a documentary. Her other books include "Raising Elijah: Protecting our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis" and "Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood." Watch Episode

This week on REPORT FROM SANTA FE, Lorene Mills is joined by Pulitzer award-winning author Junot Diaz, for a riveting discussion on race, art, and why science fiction is important. Drawing on New Mexico's unique cultural mix and Diaz' own background and wealth of experience, they discuss perspectives on immigration, politics and fear and how art, specifically fiction, can serve as an agent for progress on many levels. Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was named Time Magazine's #1 Best Fiction Book of 2007. His most recent work “This Is How You Lose Her” is a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. Watch Episode

David Houle is a futurist, strategist, speaker, and author of "The Shift Age." He coined the phrase "The Shift Age" in 2007 and identified this new age as the successor to the Information Age. He has been called “the CEOs futurist” and is regarded as the “emerging global futurist today.” He spent 20 years in media and was part of the executive team that launched MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, and CNN Headline News. He has won two Emmys, a Peabody and was nominated for an Academy Award. Watch Episode

David Stuart MacLean, author of the New York Times best-selling book "The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia." Part medical mystery, part personal journey, and a cautionary tale about the dangerous side effects of a commonly prescribed drug used by travelers to prevent malaria, this riveting memoir traces MacLean's recovery from amnesia and asks important questions about the nature of memory and identity. Watch Episode

This week's guest on REPORT FROM SANTA FE is an icon of American literature, Navarre Scott Momaday, known as N. Scott Momaday. An accomplished poet, novelist, playwright, painter, storyteller, and professor, Momaday was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "House of Made of Dawn". He was the first Native American to win the Pulitzer In 2007, President George W. Bush gave Momaday the National Medal of the Arts, the highest honor any artist in America can receive. Momaday now balances his creative time between writing and painting. Watch Episode

This week's guest on "Report from Santa Fe" is Ralph Metzner, PhD, psychologist, writer, and researcher, who participated in psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later named Ram Dass). Dr. Metzner is a psychotherapist who has been involved in consciousness research for over 45 years. More

This week Report from Santa Fe presents a special “In Memoriam” show, an exclusive New Mexico interview with the late Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney, accompanied by his wife actress and singer Jan Rooney. Filmed in July 2007, Rooney offers insights and stories about Hollywood royalty and recounts his encounter with real royalty, when he met Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain and kissed her hand. More

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