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  "description": "Former senior policy advisor to Sen. Ben Ray Luján steps into state role at critical time",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-06-24T16:02:39.000Z",
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  "textContent": "June 24, 2025 – New Mexico Governor **Michelle Lujan Grisham** , D-N.M., _has appointed_ **Jeffrey Lopez** to serve as Director of the New Mexico Office of Broadband Access and Expansion.\n\nLopez _previously worked_ as a senior policy advisor and state staff to Sen. **Ben Ray Luján** , D-N.M., and as a senior policy advisor and legislative assistant for former Sen. **Tom Udall** , D-N.M., according to his LinkedIn profile.\n\nGrisham expressed high praise for Lopez.\n\n\n\n_****FROM SPEEDING BEAD SUMMIT****_\n _****Panel 1: How Are States Thinking About Reasonable Costs Now?****_\n_****Panel 2: Finding the State Versus Federal Balance in BEAD****_\n _****Panel 3: Reacting to the New BEAD NOFO Guidance****_\n _****Panel 4: Building, Maintaining and Adopting Digital Workforce Skills****_\n\n All Videos from Speeding BEAD Summit \n\n“Jeffrey possesses the perfect combination of federal policy knowledge, broadband program prowess, and familiarity with New Mexico communities that our state needs to maximize the historic broadband investments underway,” Grisham said. “His leadership will help ensure every New Mexican has access to reliable, high-speed internet, from our rural communities to our tribal nations.”\n\nAccording to the governor’s press release, issued Monday, Lopez “worked directly on legislation that created the federal Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Act.”\n\nHis appointment comes at a critical time for the state, _which dismissed its last broadband director_, **Drew Lovelace** , _after he failed to push through_ a $70 million proposal to expand high-speed internet access to New Mexican residents via Starlink.\n\nGrisham also appointed **Aquiles “Alex” Trujillo** to serve as deputy director. Trujillo’s and Lopez’s appointments are both effective immediately.",
  "title": "Jeffrey Lopez Appointed as New Mexico Broadband Director",
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