Arturo Archuleta
Director
Email: carchuleta02@unm.edu
Background
Cándido Arturo Archuleta, Jr. is the Director of the New Mexico Land Grant Council and the Land Grant-Merced Institute at the University of New Mexico. He also serves as the Chair of the Community Governance Attorney Commission. His service to land grant-merced communities began in 2003 and he has over 20 years of experience working on land grant related issues, including policy development and advocacy at the state and federal levels, community development, governance capacity building and legal assistance. He is a licensed attorney in the State of New Mexico, and his education includes a Juris Doctor from the UNM School of Law, a Master's in Community and Regional Planning from the UNM School of Architecture and Planning and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Spanish from Eastern New Mexico University. He is a native New Mexican born and raised in Albuquerque with roots in the land grant communities of Tierra Amarilla and Manzano
