Meet The Team
Publisher
Lindsay Wood
Lindsay Wood was a founding member and editor for Downtown Albuquerque News. A project manager turned publisher, her strengths are finding the best people and her stoic ability to sit through long neighborhood association meetings.
She loves the Nob Hill/UNM area. She has fond memories of attending Popejoy performances as a girl, visiting her father, a former professor, at his UNM office, and meeting high school friends at the Frontier.
She loves the concept of Nob Hill News, which is essentially to create a small town paper inside of a big city.
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Editor
Ty Bannerman
Ty Bannerman’s work has appeared in the American Literary Review, New Mexico Magazine, Atlas Obscura, Eater, The Bite and the Midway Journal.
While working at the Weekly Alibi, Albuquerque’s former alternative newspaper, he served as food editor, features editor and managing editor.
He co-hosts a podcast, City on the Edge, which discusses Albuquerque history, as well as a YouTube channel, Meet Me In Dreamland, which documents American history as reflected in its amusement parks and attractions.
His upcoming book, Nuclear Family: A Memoir of the Atomic West, will be published in 2026 by University of New Mexico Press.
Reporter
Sequoia Rudolph
Sequoia Rudolph is a retired special education teacher whose twenty-five-year career spans three-year-olds with developmental delays to twenty-two-year-old incarcerated young adults. And, every grade level in-between.
While living and teaching on Maui, she wrote her first novel, In Time Out.
In other lives, Sequoia served in the United States Navy, and is mom to three grown children. She loves
to explore new places, all water sports and being outdoors. She lives with Sandy and Foxy, the little lost
dogs who found their way into her heart.
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Reporter
Michael Farrell Smith
Michael Farrell Smith is the author of local photo-history book Towns of the Sandia Mountains; a former music-and-arts scene chronicler for Albuquerque’s sadly now-defunct Weekly Alibi; one co-host of the long-running Albuquerque history podcast, City on the Edge; writer of uncounted articles about New Mexico and
the Southwest; and in his fifteenth year of steady work on a sixty-chapter two-volume multiform
maximalist autobiography, Shadows of Clouds on the Mountains - Book 1 of which should finally be
completed this year.
Smith has a master’s degree in nonfiction from UNM, and is a writer-and-editor for hire, just email away at michaelfarrellsmith@gmail.com.
Reporter
Maggie Grimason
Maggie Grimason is a writer and editor living in Nob Hill. Her arts writing has appeared in Playboy, Hyperallergic, New Mexico Magazine and exhibition catalogs from Santa Fe to Berlin. Also a student of science, she has written for journals published by MIT and the Center for Biological Diversity. Excerpts from a book-in-progress on ghost hunting, grief, and memory have been published in Ploughshares.
She is the former editor of Southwest Contemporary and the arts & lit section of the Alibi, as well as several books on visual culture. She currently serves on UNM's Technical and Professional Communication Industry and Academic Advisory Team. She finds inspiration for her writing in the crusty eyes of her little white dog and the patterns of birds flying overhead.
Reporter
Damon Scott
Damon Scott was first bitten by the news bug as a sophomore at Sandia High School and has gone on to be an editor and reporter for digital and print media across his home state of New Mexico and in South Florida.
Damon has worked for the Seminole Tribune, South Florida Gay News, the Daily Lobo, Albuquerque Business First, the Taos News, The Paper, City Desk ABQ and many other organizations.
He’s covered government, housing, homelessness, Indian Country, the LGBTQ community, restaurants, retail, real estate, the economy and more. Send him an email at damonscott87@gmail.com.
Cartoonist
Amaris Feland Ketcham
Amaris Feland Ketcham is a writer and multidisciplinary artist who explores the combination of text, image, and place. She is an associate professor in the Honors College at UNM.
She has written two poetry books, A Poetic Inventory of the Sandia Mountains and Glitches in the FBI; a camping guide to New Mexico, Best Tent Camping: New Mexico; and a graphic novel, Unfiltered: A Cancer Year Diary.
Amaris volunteers with the Arts-in-Medicine program at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, where she facilitates creative encounters with patients, caregivers and medical personnel.
Photographer
Roland Penttila
Roland Penttila has been taking pictures since his father loaned him a camera at the age of 11. He’s gotten a bit better since then and can now afford better cameras. After a career as a civil engineer, he became interested in Albuquerque history and has researched and presented several topics for Oasis Lifelong Learning and local historic groups.
He’s a fan of Nob Hill and Route 66 and lives in the Ridgecrest area with his wife and 15-year-old
rescue pup, Bitty.
Student Reporter
Taihg McCabe
Taihg McCabe is a student at New Mexico Academy for the Media Arts in Nob Hill, serving as Governing Council Student Representative. He lives in the Southeast Heights near Hyder Park.
He is also a photographer and filmmaker, having directed the award-winning documentary, Hear Our Voices.
An engaged member of Indivisible Albuquerque, Taihg produces weekly meeting broadcasts for the organization and is involved in the IA Youth Engagement Committee.
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