Board and Staff
Board
- Ms. Rosemary Romero, President
- Mr. Oscar Rodriquez, Vice President
- Mr. Michael Chamberlain, Treasurer
- Ms. Claudia Meyer Horn, Secretary
- Ms. Ellen Bradbury, Member
- Mr. Kirk Ellis, Member
- Mr. Rury Lopez-Carrera, Member
- Mr. Ron Pacheco, Member
- Mr. Jacques Paisner, Member
- Mr. Patrick Varela, Member
Staff
- Ms. Tunté Vigil, Executive Director
- Mr. Vic Macias, Director of Events & Marketing
Board
Rosemary Romero
President
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.
Michael Chamberlain
Treasurer
Michael has an extensive career working with nonprofit organizations. He has served in executive leadership positions with local organizations (10 years each as Co-Director of the Plaza Resolana Study and Conference Center and then COO of the New Mexixo Community Foundation), as well as ten years as CFOO of the Seven Hills School, an independent school in California. He holds undergraduate degrees in Business and Finance and Education, and subsequently earned his J.D. from the University of San Francisco in 1982. He is member of the California Bar Association.
As a practicing attorney, he currently serves as principal of the Non Profit Mediation and Consulting LLC, and serves as Of Counsel to a California law firm that focuses on non-profit organization clients.
He became the SFRCC Treasurer in summer 2025.
Michael lives in Santa Fe, enjoying hiking and fishing with sweet dogs Charlie and Blu.
Claudia Meyer Horn
Secretary
Ellen Bradbury
Member
Ellen Bradbury is the Director/Founder of Recursos de Santa Fe, a non-profit designed to stimulate an active intellectual and artistic exchange of ideas and to bridge the gap between academe and popular audiences. Ms. Bradbury has also been involved with the Santa Fe Festival of the Arts, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Consultant to Regis Collection of Contemporary 20th Century American Art in Minneapolis, Guest Curator with Manos de Mexico in St. Paul, Curator of Primitive Arts at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Registrar and Curator of Pre-Columbian Art in Minneapolis.
Ms. Bradbury received her B.A. from the University of New Mexico as well as her M.A. continuing with Advanced Graduate Study in the Ph. D. program in American Art at UNM. She also attended Yale from 1967-1968.
She grew up in Los Alamos where her father worked on the Manhattan Project.
Jacques Paisner
Member
Jacques Paisner is the artistic director and a founding member of the Santa Fe International Film Festival. He is the former Director of Programming at Jean Cocteau Cinema. Jacques serves on the Advisory Board for California American Indian Film Festival, and served on the Mayor's Santa Fe Film Commission. He is executive producer on the forthcoming film HEATWAVES. Jacques currently lives in Santa Fe with his dog.
Ron Pacheco
Member-at-Large
Ron Pacheco has a total of twenty-one years of local government service working for the City of Santa Fe for seventeen years and four years of service for Santa Fe County. For the Past Three years he has been the Director-of the Santa Fe County Division of Senior Services. Prior to working at Santa Fe County, he was the Affordable Housing Administrator for the City of Santa Fe for two years and the Deputy Director of the Santa Fe County Public Housing Office for one year.
In the fifteen years prior to working as an affordable housing administrator at the City of Santa Fe he held three positions at the Division of Senior Services. He began his career in government in the summer of 1991 when he was hired as the Inventory Specialist for the Senior Nutrition Program. He was then promoted to the Safe-Kids Safe Seniors Program Coordinator where he was able to promote health and safety programs for seniors and children thereby working inter-generationally. His final five years in the City of Santa Fe Senior Program were in the capacity as the Senior Olympics Program Administrator.
Rury Lopez-Carrera
Member
Patrick Varela
Member
Patrick Varela is a native 5th generation Santa Fean. His mother is Antonia “Toni” Ortiz a 4th generation Santa Fean and his father was Celestino Varela Jr. a native from Pecos New Mexico a World War II veteran who passed away in 1998. Patrick received a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Colorado Technical University and also belongs to the Sigma Beta Delta honors society in Business.
He has worked in both private and governmental sectors where he got the opportunity to master different skills and the opportunity to meet many people and got the interest to serve my community in a positive manner.
His roots are very deep in the city of Santa Fe and its history and he belongs to a family who is active in helping to preserve Santa Fe’s diverse culture. He recently served on the Santa Fe 400th Anniversary Board where he was active and responsible for bringing the Mayor from our sister city Santa Fe de la Vega Spain to Santa Fe New Mexico, where exact copies of the Capitulaciones (documents granting Columbus permission to find a new trade route to India) were presented to Santa Fe.
Staff
