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This week on “Voices of Taos,” editor Geoffrey Plant talks with Contessa Trujillo, project manager of the Cultural Treasures Project, and Jessica Stern, director of the Taos County Economic Development Department and director of the Cultural Treasures Project.

The Cultural Treasures Project is a community-led initiative that works to catalogue the places, practices, and people that define the region’s identity. Through surveys, interviews, and focus groups, community members can help to identify and preserve what makes Taos so special.

Through community engagement, the Cultural Treasures Project team is working to identify and map cultural assets, such as acequias, cultural venues, stories, lost places, language, cultural practices, art forms, and anything else that residents may find valuable to the local community. This data will then eventually be used to help create policies and educational tools to guide responsible sustainable tourism and growth, safeguarding Taos County’s unique cultural and natural heritage.

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