Board and Staff

Steven Robinson is an architect and planning consultant with a wide range of experience working with private clients, public agencies and academic institutions. His award winning architectural designs embody and advance the aesthetics of regional architecture and community planning.

As the Principal in Steven Robinson Architects, he has designed private residences, art galleries, theaters, athletic facilities, multi-family housing, historic restorations, public parks and large scale mixed use master plans. Major projects in New Mexico include the Gerald Peters Gallery, Bartolome Sanchez Land Grant, Awakening Museum, Rio Chama Restaurant and award winning custom homes. The firm has expertise in the design of climatically responsive buildings and ecologically sustainable land use plans.

Mr. Robinson's architecture is featured in the documentary film "Energy from the Day Star". He is author of the pioneering book The Energy Efficient Home, a comprehensive guide for energy and water conservation and the use of solar, wind and wood power published by The New American Library. Mr. Robinson has taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and has served as a consultant to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. He has presented his work at four National Passive Solar conferences and at the International Passive and Hybrid Cooling conference.

As a community leader, Mr. Robinson is the president of the Santa Fe Railyard Community Corporation, the non-profit corporation developing the city-owned 50 acre downtown property. He was founding member of the Santa Fe Land Use Resource Center and the Neighborhood Coalition, and has served on the Board of Directors Advisory Council of 1000 Friends of New Mexico and the National Board of Advisors of Cornerstones Community Partnerships. He initiated, organized and conducted the "Forum on Growth Management" sponsored by the Thaw Charitable Trust in 1995. Mr. Robinson has been the featured public speaker at the National Preservation Conference of the National Trust Historic Preservation, the Forum on Ancient Futures for New Communities, Sustainable Communities of New Mexico and the Free Form of Santa Fe.

Mr. Robinson is a Registered Architect, certified through the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in Liberal Arts and received a Master of Architecture from Yale University.

Oscar Rodriguez is a public sector executive with a long career in New Mexico, elsewhere in the US, and abroad.  His bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and masters from MIT prepared him for work as an international consultant, primarily in Latin America, in addition to service as Assistant City Manager for the City of Austin, and Executive Director of the Maryland National Capital Park & Planning Commission.  His appointments in New Mexico have included Town Manager for the Town of Taos followed as well as Finance Director for the City of Santa Fe.  Mr. Rodriguez is currently the Chief Financial Officer for the New Mexico Finance Authority.  He and his wife are proud parents of a child who happily attends Santa Fe Public Schools, and he is an enrolled member of the Lipan Apache Tribe where he continues to serve as an ex officio member of the tribal council.

Chris Calvert was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1948. He graduated from Alamo Heights High School in 1966. He then attended the Air Force Academy in Colorado. Upon graduating he completed pilot training and became a C-141 pilot during the Vietnam War. Chris left the Air Force in 1975 and enrolled in the Conservation of Natural Resources Program at U.C. Berkeley. After receiving his second Bachelor’s degree, Chris went to Sacramento and worked as an intern for a California State assemblyman. Chris then returned to the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Public Policy, where he earned a master’s Degree in 1979. Chris worked for eight years for Blue Cross of California, followed by a career with the U.S. Postal service as a letter carrier. During this time Chris served in numerous civic capacities including planning commissioner, code enforcement commissioner, president of neighborhood associations, Democratic ward vice-chairperson, and a water conservation committee member. In 2006 Chris was elected to the Santa Fe City Council where he served for two terms until 2014. Chris also retired from the US Postal Service in 2014.

Prior to being elected to the Board of Directors in 2023, Richard was SFRCC’s  Executive Director from 2005 to 2021. Richard was responsible for the construction, leasing and management of the Santa Fe Railyard from the design of the infrastructure to 95% completion of the development of the project. He negotiated all of the leases and  was responsible for completion of $14 million in infrastructure construction. He worked closely with all of the Railyard stakeholders and with the City of Santa Fe through several administrations. He negotiated the Amended and Restated Lease and Management Agreement with the City in 2011 that is in place today.

Richard brings more than four decades of both domestic and international commercial real estate and construction experience to the Board. After earning a BA degree from the University of Colorado, he worked in offshore oil and gas exploration in Southeast Asia and then spent three years in Saudi Arabia as a Project Manager for the construction of large oil and gas related facilities with Fluor Engineers.  After seven years with Fluor, Richard joined the Tosco Corporation working on a large share oil development project in Western Colorado. In 1983 he joined La Salle Partners (now Jones Lang La Salle) where he was responsible for the  property management, leasing, asset management and construction of a 2.2 million SF portfolio of office, industrial and retail buildings in the Denver, Colorado area.

In 1995  Richard joined Brookfield Properties, a Canadian Real Estate Investment Trust,  to manage a 4 million SF portfolio of buildings in the Southwest US including the 1.2 million SF Republic Plaza, Denver’s tallest building. He relocated to Santa Fe in 2002 to work in asset management  with the Santa Fe based  BGK Group, where he was responsible for 13 buildings located East of the Mississippi River. In 2004 Richard joined the Santa Fe Railyard Community Corporation and was promoted to Executive Director in 2005.

Before he retired, he held the CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Manager) and CPM (Certified Property Manager) designations. Richard served a Treasurer of the Sixteenth Street Mall Board in Denver and was active in the NAIOP and BOMA commercial real estate organizations.  A lifetime skier and ski racer, he  volunteered  as an instructor for the Adaptive Ski Program where he helped disabled individuals experience the joys of skiing in the Rocky Mountains.

Richard has made his home in Santa Fe and with his wife raised two daughters, Paige and Brooke, both who live and work in Santa Fe today. He stated, “I am honored and pleased to be able to continue to contribute to success of SFRCC and the Santa Fe Railyard in my new position as a Board member."

Ouida MacGregor ‘s career primarily focused on urban, regional and environmental planning. In the 1970’s , she was actively involved in the successful preservation of the Rio Grande Bosque and Sandia Mountains. Executive Director for Growth Policy Association, she coordinated Master Planning for City of Tacoma, WA, Pierce County and Port of Tacoma. As chairman of the Santa Fe Planning Commission and subsequent member of the City Council, she was instrumental in drafting the Original Trails and Escarpment Plans, the Master Plan of 1994, and creation of Tierra Contenta. Other experiences include teaching, construction management, 20 years as a business owner with husband Thom Allen. She has a BA from Carleton College, M Architecture –UNM, MA & PhD from Pacifica Graduate Institute.

For the past 30 years, Ms. Romero has designed and facilitated numerous public involvement projects, assessed the potential for neutral conflict resolution services in diverse cases, consulted with public and private organizations on the use of alternative dispute resolution techniques, trained hundreds of persons in negotiation and mediation and public involvement skills and promoted the use of mediation and facilitation in the environmental field and other public policy arenas. She has facilitated controversial issues with various federal, state, local governments and nonprofit organizations and lead strategic planning efforts for numerous entities.

Ms. Romero is the former President of Western Network a non-profit organization that developed an extensive practice centered on conflict resolution specific to natural resource issues such as water planning and land use planning. She completed four years as an elected City of Santa Fe Councilor and is a former member of the Planning Commission.  As a City Councilor, Ms. Romero served on several regional boards including the Chairmanship of the North Central Regional Transit District, Santa Fe Solid Waste Management Authority, and Santa Fe Regional Planning Authority while also serving on key City of Santa Fe committees.

Devon Ross has worked as an organizational development consultant since 1985, predominantly in the education and non-profit sectors. Prior to that he had served as executive director of several non-profit organizations and professional associations on both state and national levels. In the field of education, he has been a teacher, program director and adjunct lecturer.  Devon holds an MA degree in arts administration from Ohio State University and an MBA degree from Central Michigan University.

With an undergraduate degree in architecture and studio arts, he has carried on an architectural avocation for the past thirty- five years including several years as the owner of a design/build firm in the residential and light commercial markets. Throughout that same period of time he has been involved in the fine arts as a sculptor, largely by commission although exhibiting on occasion, most recently in Santa Fe. Beginning in 2007 with the founding of Red Mountain Press, Devon and his wife Susan have operated a growing, literary publishing house producing as many as ten new titles each year. Devon and Susan have also worked together in building or renovating a dozen houses around Santa Fe, starting in the early 1990s. Mr. Ross was elected to the SFRCC Board in February 2004.  He resigned from the Board in August of 2019 and was named a Director Emeritus.