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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Senior Editor

Donna Wickerd

Donna Wickerd is a New Mexico-based teacher and journalist who has called the Land of Enchantment home for six years.

Her career spans both the classroom and the newsroom, having taught business and journalism before stepping into editorial roles across the state.

She previously served as the city editor for the Gallup Independent and as assistant editor at the Navajo Times.

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Drawing on her reporting background and passion for education, Wickerd brings real-world media experience, sharp storytelling and deep community focus to every project she undertakes.

Managing Editor

M. Ryan Kious

M. Ryan Kious is a local freelance writer, Southeast ABQ community organizer, and self-proclaimed green chile snob.

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He serves as vice president of the Elder Homestead Neighborhood Association and communications director for the District 6 Coalition of Neighborhood Associations.

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A native ’Burqueño, he’s passionate about driving socioeconomic change in the International District and strengthening neighborhood networks across Albuquerque.

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

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.

Reporter

Gail Guengerich

Gail has been getting disenchanted and re-enamored by Albuquerque since she moved to the Nob Hill area in 2000.

Just when she’s about to go full curmudgeon, yelling, "Stop it, Albuquerque!" while kicking a dusty can into the path of a stray cat, she finds some new, hidden and beautiful facet of the city and repents.

She has worked as a freelance editor and at various nonprofits as an English second-language teacher. Her writing has appeared in the Weekly Alibi, Edible Santa Fe, Downtown Albuquerque News, the Austin Chronicle and Blue Mesa Review.

Reporter

Jennifer Moglia Lucil

Jennifer Moglia Lucil has family roots in New York and Massachusetts. But her move to New Mexico in 2013 led to a unique relationship with the Southwest as an early childhood educator. Jennifer helped create learning experiences in nature for young students, which required driving a bus to the mountains and bosque to get outside and play. 

Jennifer is currently a freelance writer who lives in Parkland Hills with her husband and twin sons.  Her work has won recognition from the Albuquerque Museum of Art’s Anne Hillerman Celebration of Writing Award, 2019, and from the Alibi’s Pretty in Print writing contest for creative nonfiction.