Our Board Members
Providing leadership for the Institute
Michael Knight
Michael has 30+ years of experience working for global professional services firms. Michael was the Managing Director of Client Management Services at Wellington Management Compa...
Mary Dixon
Mary Dixon has lived in Santa Fe most of her life. She graduated from Santa Fe High School in ’71 and UNM in ‘75, taught elementary school and pre-school for many years, manage...
Kyle Burns
Kyle Burns (Treasurer) is a native of Santa Fe and moved back to the city in 2014 after spending four years living and working in San Francisco. Currently Kyle is a registered inv...
Christine Castro
Christine Castro has more than 25 years of experience leading communications and public relations functions for global brands in the entertainment, technology and biotech sectors....
Nathanial Earls
Nathaniel Earls was born and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He moved to Santa Fe to attend St. John’s College, a rigorous liberal arts college “focused on the most importan...
Robert W. Jones, JD
Robert W. Jones is a native of Texas, but has spent more and more time in Santa Fe over the last 10 years and now calls The Land of Enchantment home for a big portion of the year....
Lisa Kantor
Lisa Kantor grew up in Tucson, Arizona. After receiving a BA in Spanish from Arizona State University, she pursued a graduate degree at the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico...
Kaitlyn Kimzey
Kaitlyn is a financial services professional in Santa Fe and an advocate for local agriculture. Her experience as a ranch hand and wrangler on cattle operations in Colorado forged ...
David Loeb
David Loeb founded Dirigo Consulting LLC in 2017 to advise hotel and real estate businesses on strategy and capital markets execution. Engagements have included assessing balance s...
Diane Sandoval-Griego
Diane Sandoval-Griego is the Chief of Financial Empowerment at Guadalupe Credit Union, where she has worked for 15 years. She is very passionate about identifying needs in the co...
Manny Encinias
Executive Director Adan Manuel (Manny) Encinias Ph.Dis the owner of Trilogy Beef Community, LLC and has been a vendor at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market since 2021. He is also the c...