New Mexico Acequia Association

Other Opportunities for Acequia Youth

We will update this page regularly with new events, jobs, internships, scholarships and other opportunities for youth from New Mexico rural and acequia communities.

If you have opportunities that you would like us to post here – contact us at emily@lasacequias.org

CURRENT NMAA OPPORTUNITIES

• Los Sembradores Farmer Training (application currently closed, check back next January!)
• 2023 Acequia Culture Youth Leadership Institute (application opening Feb 2023)
• Sembrando Semillas Project Sites in Taos, Chamisal, Chimayo and Abiquiu (contact emily@lasacequias.org to learn more if you live in one of these areas)

OTHER JOB & LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• Northern Youth Project Summer Arts & Agriculture Internships (based in Abiquiu – contact: nyp@northernyouthproject.org)
• East Rio Arriba Youth Conservation Corps Crew Positions & Internships (see flyer below, contact: Deandre.Velasquez@nm.nacdnet.net // Marcos.Valdez@nm.nacdnet.net)
• Moving Arts Espanola Classes, Fellowships, and Jobs (contact artisticdirector@movingartsespanola.org)
• Tewa Women United A’Gin Healthy Sexuality and Body Sovereignty program for teens in the Española Valley (contact kevinb@tewawomenunited.org)
• 2023 Northern New Mexico College “Northern Steward Field School” (see flyer below and contact steve.cox@nnmc.edu to apply)

• Hermit Peak Watershed Alliance Youth Corps – https://hermitspeakwatersheds.org/4191-2/

• 2023 Rocky Mountain Youth Corps Positions (see flyers below, or contact: angelique@youthcorps.org)

SCHOLARSHIPS

GENERAL 

• Albuquerque Community Foundation Scholarships (over 24 different options for high school graduate and college students across NM)
• La Jicarita Rural Telephone Cooperative Scholarship (for students from Mora and Wagon Mound High Schools only)
• Jemez Mountain Electric Cooperative Scholarship
• Del Norte Credit Union Scholarships

FOR HISPANIC/LATINO/CHICANO STUDENTS

• New Mexico Alliance for Hispanic Education Scholarships
• New Mexico Hispanic Women’s Council Scholarships
• University of New Mexico El Centro De La Raza Scholarships
• Chicana/Latina Scholarship Foundation
• Hispanic Scholarship Fund
• National Compadres Network Maestro José Montoya Annual Flor y Canto Memorial Scholarship
• National Alliance for Hispanic Health Scholarship

FOR STUDENTS INTERESTED IN FARMING STUDIES OR FROM FARM FAMILIES

• CAMP (College Assistance Migrant Program) for first-year college students from migrant, farm worker, and land-based farming families applying to CAMP University of New Mexico or CAMP Northern New Mexico College
• 4-H Youth In Action Scholarship
• Agriculture Future of America Scholarship
• National Future Farmers of America Scholarships
• The Farm Credit Foundation for Agricultural Advancement Scholarship
• USDA/1890 National Scholars Program
• Farm Kids for College Scholarships

FOR STUDENTS INTERESTED IN STEM/SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENT STUDIES

• NMOST Advancing Young Women in STEM Scholarship
• New Mexico MESA Scholarships (many different scholarships for those who have participated in MESA programs while in middle/high school)
• New Mexico Geographic Information Council Scholarships
• Young Women in STEM Scholarship
• Latinas in STEM Scholarship