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The Alexis Legarreta Memorial ENLACE Scholarship Fund strives to help with furthering the education of graduating Mayfield High School ENLACE participants. The fund was created by Alexis’ mother, Ashley Legarreta, with the support of Maria Legarreta, Marc Legarreta, Christina Chavez-Kelley and David Morales, Mayfield High School’s ENLACE leader.
The fund honors the memory of Alexis Legarreta, a 2019 Mayfield graduate and member of the ENLACE program. The fund is managed through the Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico (CFSNM).
Engaging Latino Communities for Education (ENLACE) has a mission to represent the voices of the underrepresented children and families within New Mexico in order to create leaders in policy initiatives which have direct impacts on our communities.
In southern New Mexico ENLACE is a catalyst for bringing together various stakeholders to create a more responsive, accountable, accessible and supportive educational system for Latinx students’ success. These activities taken together contribute to increasing high school and university graduation rates for Latinx students.
Alexis was a proud Trojan cheerleader and a friend to all. After a brief and bravely fought battle with pulmonary arterial hypertension, she died Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019, at the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque
“Part of my life’s work will always be dedicated to honoring the memory of my darling niece, Lexi Legarreta,” said her uncle, Marc Legarreta, “She was the love of my life, and I will see that her name lives on. My family and I look forward to growing this scholarship program.”
The fund will not only honor the memory of Alexis, it will support graduating Mayfield ENLACE seniors who plan to attend a technical/vocational school, a two-year community college or a four-year university.
CFSNM houses more than 35 scholarships within the endowment. In 2020, with support of a scholarship committee, more than $210,000 in scholarships were awarded to 220 students.
Scholarships can be set up in a variety of ways to support students both in southern New Mexico and throughout the US. If you are interested in setting up a scholarship, please reach out to our team.
Terra Winter can be reached at terra@cfsnm.org. To make a donation to the Alexis Legarreta Memorial Scholarship Fund, visit https://bit.ly/ald0n8te or visit the CFSNM’s Instagram/Facebook pages.
