Meet the Candidates!

 

Molly Duncan

Molly, President and Creative Director for Desert Elements Design, brings over 16 years of graphic design and media arts experience to the table. Her creative ideas in defining a look and brand with clients have helped set Desert Elements apart from others. Molly has kept her website and graphics design skills current with futures and trends in this growing field by applying her MFA in Media Arts and Computer Science; and has built from her core skills in graphic design using a rapidograph pen and paper to the first version of Illustrator on a black and white Mac. She brings strengths from a diversified background, including graphics for an architecture firm, layout and design for magazines, making jewelry, designing, marketing and producing her own line of children's clothing, and website design. She has also taught as an adjunct professor at the New School in New York, and is one of the founding members of Desert Elements Design.

Jane Hill

Chris Kramer

Mike Kruchoski

Mike Kruchoski will be a ten-year NMIPA member this fall -- not quite a founding member, but he's seen a few of our more "colorful" members come and go.  As a past membership chair, he was responsible for having persuaded a few of them to maintain their memberships, perhaps a bit longer than they ought to have.

Although Mike didn't help Al Gore (and Barb Tomlin) invent the Internet, he's been a long-time computer network user, dating back to the distant days of gopher, WAIS, and other archaic predecessors of the Worldwide Web.  Heck, he's even used lynx and Mosaic browsers.  Mike was once a self-taught BBS sysop who could do a complete system backup -- a whopping 20MB! -- in less than three minutes, while others took more than three hours.  Today, he's just a retired scientific analyst and engineer, with more than 35 years experience in a variety of military, technical, and social disciplines.

Always the skeptic about the "Internet snake oil" peddled during the early heyday of Internet commercialization, he's a down-to-earth realist.  He stays focused on making technology work for us, not the other way around.  He never lets technology become a substitute for real relationships with people.  (It's just a tool, folks, just a tool.)  He loves to debunk technologists' starry-eyed claims and help everyday users find tools that work for them.  He promises to do a conscientious job on the Board for you.

 

Michael Odza

John Schroeder

Peter Small

 

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