10/15/2026
For Hispanic Heritage Month, the Food Research and Action Center named several Latina/o/e Leaders Shaping the Fight Against Hunger, including New Mexico State Senator Ben Ray Lujan. Senator Lujan’s advocacy for small farms and efforts to Strengthen SNAP has helped Roadrunner Food Bank mitigate the increased need in our communities as a result of these federal changes.
As Hispanic Heritage Month concludes, please join us in recognizing two of Roadrunner’s own responding to New Mexico’s unique culture to shape that fight here at home.
Louie Martinez, Manager of Health Care Programming and Bloomberg Fellow, will speak at the Bloomberg American Health Summit in Baltimore, MD next week. While earning his Master’s degree in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, Louie’s fellowship will teach him the skills to assess community need, food and nutrition insecurity, and diet-related health conditions. He says, “Through Roadrunner’s expansive network of partners, and public health initiatives rooted in theory, we could change the state of population health across the state.”
Shelbie Corriz, Roadrunner Food Bank’s Director of Health Promotion, was named Con Alma Health Foundation’s 2025 Hero of Health for her decades-long work to remove barriers within New Mexico’s food and health systems. Shelbie has brought innovative responses to factors contributing to food insecurity in our communities like: food deserts, schedule and transportation limitations, inadequate multilingual nutrition education, and chronic health conditions. “Food brings us together,” Shelbie says. “Part of health equity is preserving the beautiful culture we have here in New Mexico, where we help our neighbors and lift each other up.”
You can learn more in this article:
https://frac.org/blog/celebrating-hispanic-heritage-month-10-latino-a-e-leaders-shaping-the-fight-against-hunger
