Rich Williams ’75
Rich Williams ’75 of Albuquerque, New
Mexico, received the 2019 award in Distinguished
Community Leadership during the annual
meeting of the New Mexico chapter of the
American Society of Landscape Architects. He
retired in May after 16 years as the director of
New Mexico MainStreet in the state’s Economic
Development Department. He now is principal
for ParabolaSW Partners, a mentoring and
advocacy program for the next generation
of leaders integrating the principles of interdependence and interconnectedness into
community-based economic redevelopment