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An Interview with Retta Ward

Retta Ward, Secretary of Aging and Long-Term Services
NM Dept of Health
Retta Ward, Secretary of Aging and Long-Term Services

Sat. 7/30 at noon: New Mexico Secretary of Aging and Long-Term Services, Retta Ward, is from Hagerman, NM, but has been away from the state for a while. Now, she is back to head up the agency. We also talk with Joan LaMunyon Sanford about insurance coverage for contraception, and take a peek at the Albuquerque Museum's Tiffany exhibit.

Megan Kamerick features the Tiffany exhibit at Albuquerque Museum: "A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls." More info.

And, Susan Loubet talks with Joan LaMunyon Sanford, Directer of RCRC, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice about the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report recommending health insurance coverage for Contraception - part of new health care reform law. More info.

Slideshow photo: Tiffany Girls on the roof of Tiffany Studios, 1904-05. From the collection of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida.

Megan has been a journalist for 25 years and worked at business weeklies in San Antonio, New Orleans and Albuquerque. She first came to KUNM as a phone volunteer on the pledge drive in 2005. That led to volunteering on Women’s Focus, Weekend Edition and the Global Music Show. She was then hired as Morning Edition host in 2015, then the All Things Considered host in 2018. Megan was hired as News Director in 2021.