Syndicated sex-advice columnist Dan Savage will be the guest speaker at the Human Rights Alliance’s March 28 Gayla. In addition to publishing “Savage Love” in dozens of newspapers across the US (including this one), Savage also has authored several books, including The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family and The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant. Savage is the editorial director of The Stranger, an alt.weekly newspaper in Seattle.

In 2008, their virgin year as rally racers, Team New Mex Express took home the Willie Williams Award, the Palme d’Or of the annual Dustball Rally.

Having risen from a self-described “homeless welfare mother” in New York’s Lower East Side, journalist, author and community organizer Soledad Santiago seems to embody the American, pull-your-own-bootstraps ideal.

Myra Krien is the founder and director of Pomegranate Studios, which offers dance classes and youth outreach programs, as well as the director and choreographer of Mosaic Dance Company.

Carolyn Fairman has been executive director of Coffee Kids since 2006. Founded in 1988, the Santa Fe-based nonprofit Coffee Kids works with nonprofits in Central and South America to fund projects such as school improvements, community gardens and health clinics for coffee-dependent families.
 

Lawmaking is a dangerous business: fatigue, high blood pressure, the occasional fistfight. When the suffering starts, the Roundhouse’s director of health services, Don “Doctor Don” Mason, is on hand to divvy out Band-Aids, arrange flu shots and schedule visits with acupuncturists.
 

Indi McCasey is a member of Gender Offenders, a local drag and burlesque group that celebrates Valentine’s Day with a performance, (un)Lucky in Love: A Heartbreaking Drag & Burlesque Cabaret.

In September, the state Economic Development Department hired Brendan Miller, 34, as its first green economy manager. His responsibilities include advising Gov. Bill Richardson’s new Green Jobs Cabinet. Born in New Jersey and educated at MIT and Harvard, Miller previously worked for a local property developer and a company that researched fuel-cell technologies.

Acazia Gilmore takes part in Acupuncturists Without Borders, which runs a free clinic to provide acupuncture to veterans at the Pojoaque Pueblo Wellness Center.

In the year 2552, Troy Dunn and his BR55 Battle Rifle are all that stand between free life in the universe and its total obliteration at the hands of alien religious fanatics. In the year 2009, Dunn is still a hero, just not galactically recognized. Revered as “Snake” among the regulars at [1337] Gamers Lounge in Santa Fe, the 23-year-old security guard is also a state champion in Halo 2, the second in a series of multiplayer shoot-em-up video games for Xbox.