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Not every 13-year-old is interested in global forces, but the subject was on Teague Gonz谩lez鈥檚 mind after a classmate from Mexico disappeared from their El Paso school.

Gonz谩lez, who was living in Santa Teresa but attended the nearby parochial school, learned that her friend could no longer afford tuition because a peso devaluation had set off a financial crisis in Mexico.

The young Gonz谩lez attended a talk about it at a nearby university, and 鈥渋t just blew my mind.鈥�

鈥淪o instead of thinking about what an individual can contribute, there were these much larger forces that were actually responsible for social conditions, and so I became very interested in the larger forces at play.鈥�

Gonz谩lez has chased those larger forces ever since, most recently as the new executive director of the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center. She took over in June, although she co-led the center during the prior year with founder Jenny Landau.

The center, which last year provided legal help and other services to nearly 10,000 people, is celebrating its 15th birthday with a quincea帽era event on Oct. 24.

Gonz谩lez has also worked for advocacy groups in California and Florida, practicing what she calls 鈥渕ovement lawyering,鈥� with the view that 鈥渢he law is but one tool in the toolbox for social change. And sometimes you can deploy that tool, and sometimes you shouldn鈥檛,鈥� she says.

She intends to continue the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center鈥檚 focus on its free legal services for immigrants, as well as other support it provides, such as helping clients with business development, pushing for legislative changes and educating others.

An example of the latter is the New Mexico Habeas Project, a partnership with the ACLU to train more lawyers on filing legal petitions on behalf of a growing number of detained immigrants.

鈥淔or me, as someone who has a deep faith practice and who has worked with immigrants, extremely poor families and prisoners, I think that how we treat the most exploited people is really who we are,鈥� she says. 鈥淲e need to do everything we can to afford those folks with all the constitutional protections that they鈥檙e entitled to, just as I am.鈥�

How did you first get into this work?

I come from a really large Mexican-American, culturally Catholic family. Service is a really high value for my family, and so I started volunteering from a really early age along the border, doing Meals on Wheels and Habitat for Humanity, tutoring. I went to a Jesuit undergrad, which was very important to me. Their motto was 鈥渆ducating hearts and minds to change the world.鈥�

How do you view the current crackdown on immigrants?

I think that we are seeing a slide to authoritarianism, and New Mexico is one of the states that is a model for what the opposite of that can look like. The work of organizations like Center for Civic Policy organizing in the Land of Enchantment, Somos un Pueblo Unido, El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos 鈥� to name a few. They've been working for decades to really thoughtfully think through legislative change, and so our Legislature is among the most progressive in the nation. We have a legacy governor who鈥檚 done incredible things at the cabinet level. As this national slide to authoritarianism is happening, what we鈥檙e seeing is that immigrants are being put at the tip of that spear, and so we have to block and defend and protect as much as we can.

What do you do to decompress?

I am a very outdoorsy person. I trail run, ski, stand-up paddleboard, cycle, swim, hike, cross-country ski, downhill ski. If there鈥檚 an outdoor sport based on the season, I鈥檓 out there. I also love to read.

What鈥檚 a book that has inspired you?

The book that I鈥檝e read the most is 鈥淟ove in the Time of Cholera鈥� (by Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez). It鈥檚 the magical realism and the creative possibilities and imagining worlds. I really like thinking about what we can create together, and books like that give you kind of a window on how to do that in fiction, but I think those skills can translate to the real world. A nonfiction one, I think Ta-Nehisi Coates, 鈥淏etween the World and Me.鈥�

Can you tell me about a case that you鈥檙e proud of?

Well, we don鈥檛 give up. There was a man who was helping his son recover from a series of robberies in Albuquerque, and they had been cooperating with the police. The man was eligible for a visa but was wrongfully deported (to Ju谩rez, Mexico) before his visa was approved, which is a yearslong process. His wife remained here with their children, and he didn鈥檛 get to see them as often. And his mother, who was here, passed. We appealed and we appealed and we appealed, and after nine years, he won his case. That just happened this year.

What makes you successful at doing this?

I think I love people. I鈥檓 a real humanist, and I get excited when I meet people. Whether I鈥檓 talking to a Republican or a Democratic legislator, I think that we can find common ground. I love what government can make possible. I love being in coalitions and working with organizations that have different theories of change and different methods by which they鈥檙e trying to achieve that change. I think that when we come together, we鈥檙e able to achieve so much. Whatever I have done in terms of education or training or skills or experience, it really is (about) helping me be able to love people more.

Ellen Marks, a former Journal editor, writes One-on-One profiles and Scam Watch. You can reach her at emarks@abqjournal.com.