President: Alan Macrae, Author of "Mud, Space and Spirit," the hippie book of New Mexico architecture. Native New Mexican, local builder, poet and novelist.

Vice-President: Jean-Vi Lenthe is a writer, poet, dramatist, former cabaret conferencier (emcee) and college teacher who moved to Taos two years ago from Sonoma County, California. She is also the creator of an audiobook publishing business (Wild Hare Press) and produced a series of radio shows for NPR-affiliate KRCB.

Secretary: Phyllis Hotch, Poet, author of A Little Book of Lies, and No Longer Time. Teacher of Humanities and English and former Literary Coordinator of Wayland Arts Center in Massachusetts. Member of S.O.M.O.S. Board for sixteen years. Member of the Chesed Advisory Board.

Treasurer: William J. Knight, Financial consultant with a CLU professional designation. Independent broker/owner, Knight Financial Limited. Attended University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Active in the Taos community serving on the Boards of the Taos Art Association and the Taos Municipal School Board Finance Committee.

Kathleen Fitzgerald, Magna cum laude in English from Harvard University. Worked at Boston's PBS TV station; co-founder of Ithaca Films; Board member of Poet's Theater in Cambridge, MA; active on CA Boards such as Global Fund for Women, the Marin Services for Women and Roots of Peace. Trustee for the Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation.

Steve Fox, PhD in American Studies, teaches at UNM Taos. He has taught English and American Studies at UNM-Albuquerque and organized the CAPS Writing Lab for writing tutors. Directed the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities. His publications include Toxic Work—Women Workers at GTE Lenkur, articles appearing in The Multicultural Southwest, A Reader; The Cold War American West; and The Workbook—Journal of Environmental and Social Change. He is currently writing a memoir of his experiences while in the U.S. Air Force stationed in Greece.

Cherie Burns, Author of “The Great Hurricane: 1938” and “Stepmotherhood: How to Survive Without Feeling Frustrated, Left Out, or Wicked.” Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Working Women, People, New York and other publications.

Dori Vinella, Executive Director of S.O.M.O.S. A Taoseña for over 35 years, she is a businesswoman, muse, and yoga practitioner. In 1973 she created Dori's Bakery & Cafe/Espresso Bar, which she operated until 1997. "Dori's" attracted visual and performing artists daily, and writers like John Nichols and Julia Cameron have acknowledged its importance in their creative lives. Beginning as the Curator for the 1998 Summer Writers Series, she is now the engine for this successful organization.

Hannah Rappaport, Grant Writer, and editor of the MUSE NEWS, the SOMOS quarterly newsletter, has been a Taosena since January 2005, having come from Southern California. She is writing a memoir of her transformational experiences.

Lisa Malaguti has been working as a graphic designer for more than 20 years. Formally trained at Massachusetts College of Art and The New England School of Art and Design in Boston, MA, she is the Assistant Art Director at New Mexico Magazine in Santa Fe.

Lyn Bleiler, Assistant to the Director. Since becoming a Taos resident in 1998, Lyn Bleiler spent several years at The Harwood Museum of Art coordinating special events and developing an artist-in-residence program, and completed a Bachelor's Degree with an emphasis on literature. Her professional background includes public relations and business development for architecture and design firms - work she continues to do on a freelance basis today. A published poet, Lyn's writing has appeared in a number of anthologies and literary journals.

Nora Boxer, B.A. in English from Brown University, is the editor of Chokecherries. She is the author of two volumes of poetry, including healer's edge. Nora is the recipient of the 2005 Writer’s Travel Scholarship from www.equivocality.net, and spent half of 2006 traveling in East Africa working with HIV/AIDS-related NGOs and researching for her novel. She first came to Taos in 2004 for a month at Mountain Light Writers/Artists Retreat in Arroyo Hondo.

Marjorie Agosin

Rudolfo Anaya

Jimmy Santiago Baca

James Navé

John Nichols