Sharing Time, a Labor of Love: Patricio Guerrerortiz

Patricio Guerrerortiz, is an NMCF board member and a very proud parent to four adult children (Tatyana, Nadya, Diego and Gabriela). He says his daughters have given him the joy of grandparenting six children and one on the way (Liam 17, Lucas 12, Yesenia 8, Oliver 6, Emiliano 5, Elias 4), the youngest girl expected in late March ’26.

While he says he is “currently mostly retired as a professional engineer,” he spends his time in endeavors that involve children grandparenting, community service, young-professional mentoring and some engineering work as well as assisting his engineer spouse in running her own professional enterprise. He split his active professional years working in the public sector managing engineering activities, primarily related to water utilities infrastructure, serving with the cities of Albuquerque and Santa Fe, as well as with the Counties of Santa Fe and Los Alamos. For two of those years, he served the State of New Mexico as the Deputy Secretary of Transportation for engineering design, transportation and transit planning, “I have always seen public service as my opportunity to embrace and contribute to the wellbeing of one community, as opposed to one client at the time.”

Contributing to the reliable supply of clean water to the members of his community has brought a great deal of satisfaction in his life. “I see water as essential for a healthy life, and the access to its reliable supply as a human right. While my years of direct involvement in the design and operation of water and wastewater services me be mostly behind me, promoting the expansion of the number of people with access to it is still very important to me and one way in which I can play a positive role for our communities in New Mexico. The New Mexico Community Foundation provides me a wonderful opportunity to do that.”

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