Party Affiliation: Democrat
District 3
Bio
Alicia Edwards is the Coordinator for Healthy Kids Healthy Communities Grant County (HKHC). HKHC provides, implements and supports initiatives that create policy, systems and environmental changes that result in increased access to healthy eating and physical activity in schools. Ms. Edwards is the former Executive Director of The Volunteer Center and the Commons Center for Food Security and Sustainability, working to end hunger and poverty in Grant County, New Mexico through a multitude of short and long-term projects rooted in social justice and designed to increase individual and community self-sufficiency and resiliency. Ms. Edwards helped found the Grant County Food Policy Council, the New Mexico Collaboration to End Hunger, the Grant County Community Foundation and has served on the Southwest Regional Food Policy Council and the Grant County Community Health Council. She is also a published author, photographer and sculptor whose art and images are in private collections in the US, Canada and England. Her idea of adventure is a backpack, a one-way ticket to anywhere and has traveled extensively in all 50 states and five continents. Her favorite conveyances for travel are her feet, a bicycle or a sailboat.
2023 Committee Assignments
New Mexico Insurance Authority Pool Board
Contacts
County Commissioner District 3
Alicia Edwards
Phone: (575) 574-0023
Fax: (575) 574-0073
Email: aedwards@grantcountynm.gov
Business Hours:
By Appointment
Office Location
Grant County Manager’s Office
1400 Highway 180 East
Silver City, NM 88061-7837
Mailing Address
PO Box 898
Silver City, NM 88062-0898
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