.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... In August 2020, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, responding to the national reckoning that began with the alarming (killing) of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police, created an Advisory Council on Racial Justice with three subcommittees. The governor chose council members based on their leadership and knowledge of and experience with the interlocking systems of discrimination and unequal resources that thwart Black, Indigenous and other communities of color. In early December, the Council on Racial Justice provided more than 50 recommendations to the governor, including a recommendation strongly urging the governor to support HJR1, the proposed constitutional amendment to invest an additional 1% from the Land Grant Permanent Fund proceeds to pay for early childhood education programs. When this amendment was first proposed in 2010, New Mexico ranked 46th in the nation for child wellbeing, as measured by the Kids Count report, but fell to 50th place in 2018 where it continues to rank dead last among the states.