The International Women’s Forum of New Mexico (IWF-NM) and the City of Santa Fe will hold a public dedication ceremony on June 24, 2024, to honor and celebrate the enduring legacy of three remarkable Santa Fe women and call attention to the powerful, often underrepresented role of women in New Mexico history. 

Sited along the Santa Fe River between Old Santa Fe Trail and Don Gaspar Avenue, the three markers will create a Women’s River Walk that includes one of the first New Mexico Historic Women Markers, installed in 2007 for Mary Magdalen and the Sisters of Loretto (1852-1968), nuns who traveled the grueling Santa Fe Trail and went on to establish Our Lady of Light Academy, the territory’s first school for young women. The new markers will honor: 

• Dorothy McKibbin (1897-1985) “Gatekeeper of Los Alamos” Secretary for the Manhattan Project
• Myra Ellen Jenkins (1916-1993), who helped develop New Mexico’s modern historic preservation movement
• Doña Teresa de Aquilera y Roche (1663), outspoken wife of the Governor who was arrested and extradited to Mexico City with her husband but successfully fought charges by the Holy Office of the Inquisition

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