Kate Padilla's life path began in Taos, New Mexico, where her mother's family settled generations earlier, then to Wyoming, where her parents found work, and back to New Mexico, as a federal lands manager, establishing partnerships with Mexico and offering environmental skills to indigenous Tarahumara. She's a University of Wyoming graduate, worked as a journalist, a Senate staffer in Washington, D.C. and traveled independently with her spouse from Vietnam to Cuba to the Balkans. Now retired in Albuquerque, she focuses on family past with art and poetry.
