Raising Hope featured on KNME's New Mexico in Focus

KNME, Albuquerque’s PBS station, released video of its recent show featuring Raising Hope: The Equal Voice Story. The episode aired on February 25, 2011 on the station’s public affairs show, New Mexico in Focus.

The show featured a panel of Equal Voice partners who discussed topics around the documentary and other policy issues in New Mexico. Panelists were: Diana Dorn-Jones of United South Broadway; Jeff Chalan, Equal Voice Participant; Marcela Diaz of Somos un Pueblo Unido; and Kathy Sanchez of TEWA Women United. The panel talked extensively about the 2008 Equal Voice for America’s Families campaign, the unity felt across organizations, races, and regions during the campaign, and the obstacles still facing New Mexico’s low-income families today.

New Mexico in Focus blog posts about Equal Voice:

Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and The Equal Voice Story Tie-In

Watch the show in segments:

1. Commercial for upcoming show.

2. Clips of Raising Hope: The Equal Voice Story.

3. Panel Discussion about Raising Hope.

4. A story about United South Broadway’s Fair Lending Center.

5. Panel discussion about the Fair Lending Center with same panel as above.

6. A story about breaking the cycle of poverty through community schools.

7. Panel talks about financing work on issues concerning working families.