JUST COMMUNITY WITH KARI BACHMAN
Thursday 8-9am rebroadcast Tuesday 2-3pm
Just Community shares the stories of people whose voices often go unheard. Each hourlong conversation touches on wide-ranging issues that impact equity in the Mesilla Valley. You’ll gain insights into the struggles and accomplishments of everyday folks, as well as inspiration to come together to transform our world!
Kari Bachman visits with community members whose voices are not often part of civic dialogue. Their broad-ranging conversations illuminate the gifts in everyone and illustrate how we can all work together to shape a more just and equitable community. Listeners are welcome to call in as well as suggest guests for future shows.
Kari developed a love of people at an early age. At family get-togethers, she could always be found sitting with older relatives, absorbing their stories and peppering them with questions about their everyday lives and how they experienced the world. As a child, she was profoundly shaped by periodic moves from one coast to the other. Though challenging, these moves enabled her to develop a deep appreciation for different ways of being in the world, as well as an ability to identify with people living on the margins.
Kari’s young adult life was marked by extended experiences living and working overseas. After graduating from high school, she spent such a magical summer in Zacatecas that she was tempted not to come back to start college. Always a generalist, she somehow cobbled together enough credits to graduate with a degree in political science from Swarthmore College. By then, having also lived in the Dominican Republic and the Mexican Sierra Madre, she had decided against law school. Instead, she opted for the Peace Corps, where she worked with Zaïrean fish farmers. After stints teaching at an organic farm and cooking at an international summer camp, she landed in Las Cruces in 1994 to study Agricultural and Extension Education. She has resided here ever since.
For nearly two decades, Kari worked with paraprofessional nutrition educators through the NMSU Cooperative Extension Service. It was then that she got her first media experience creating training videos. She is most proud of a project featuring oral histories of nutrition educators and their participants.
In 2015, Kari launched a new career as director of Doña Ana Communities United (DACU). She is passionate about connecting diverse residents and creating spaces where together they work to advance health equity. She is excited now to have not only the opportunity to listen to someone’s story, but to bring people together and work directly with them to shape a society where everyone can realize good health as they define it, based on their own lived experiences.
Kari Bachman visits with community members whose voices are not often part of civic dialogue. Their broad-ranging conversations illuminate the gifts in everyone and illustrate how we can all work together to shape a more just and equitable community. Listeners are welcome to call in as well as suggest guests for future shows.
Kari developed a love of people at an early age. At family get-togethers, she could always be found sitting with older relatives, absorbing their stories and peppering them with questions about their everyday lives and how they experienced the world. As a child, she was profoundly shaped by periodic moves from one coast to the other. Though challenging, these moves enabled her to develop a deep appreciation for different ways of being in the world, as well as an ability to identify with people living on the margins.
Kari’s young adult life was marked by extended experiences living and working overseas. After graduating from high school, she spent such a magical summer in Zacatecas that she was tempted not to come back to start college. Always a generalist, she somehow cobbled together enough credits to graduate with a degree in political science from Swarthmore College. By then, having also lived in the Dominican Republic and the Mexican Sierra Madre, she had decided against law school. Instead, she opted for the Peace Corps, where she worked with Zaïrean fish farmers. After stints teaching at an organic farm and cooking at an international summer camp, she landed in Las Cruces in 1994 to study Agricultural and Extension Education. She has resided here ever since.
For nearly two decades, Kari worked with paraprofessional nutrition educators through the NMSU Cooperative Extension Service. It was then that she got her first media experience creating training videos. She is most proud of a project featuring oral histories of nutrition educators and their participants.
In 2015, Kari launched a new career as director of Doña Ana Communities United (DACU). She is passionate about connecting diverse residents and creating spaces where together they work to advance health equity. She is excited now to have not only the opportunity to listen to someone’s story, but to bring people together and work directly with them to shape a society where everyone can realize good health as they define it, based on their own lived experiences.