Alicia Ulibarri Selected to the Community Governance Attorney Program
September 30, 2024
The Community Governance Attorney Program (CGAP) was established by the New Mexico Legislature in 2019 to provide legal services for land grant, acequia, and colonias Communities. When these communities require legal help, CGAP connects them with law students participating in the program who can offer support. Participants agree to work for two years after graduation for an organization that serves these communities.
Alicia Ulibarri, a third-year law student at the School of Law, has been selected for the Community Governance Attorney Program. Ulibarri, the program’s third participant, describes her selection as a great honor and expressed her enthusiasm for contributing to her community through this opportunity. As a native New Mexican, she is particularly motivated to support her local community. Ulibarri also highlighted the crucial role of the School of Law in her preparation for this role and explained that “the UNM School of Law has been instrumental in preparing me for this path, with its emphasis on public service and hands-on learning.”
CGAP Director Arturo Archuleta explained, “The New Mexico Land Grant Council played a key role in its passage and continues to support and monitor the Program’s development. The Council is pleased that the Program has had three participants to date, and that one of those participants is already in practice, at New Mexico Legal Aid, serving land grant, acequia, and colonias communities.”
The two other program participants include Elisabeth Gutierrez (’23) who is in her second year at New Mexico Legal Aid through the program and Victoria Lovato (’23 ) who deferred for a second year because she is clerking at the New Mexico Supreme Court.
Learn more about the CGAP Program here.
