NMPBS General Manager Franz Joachim featured guest This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Gwyneth Doland interviews NMPBS General Manager Franz Joachim, who lays out the facts on what President Donald Trump's executive order to end federal funding for public media could mean here at home. The dam that creates the El Vado Reservoir on the Rio Chama Tributary is leaking and in dire need of repair. Correspondent Elizabeth Miller recently spoke with water management expert Adrian Oglesby about the dam and his concerns over the water outlook for New Mexico this summer.

In collaboration with New Mexico In Depth, Indigenous Affairs Reporter Bella Davis visits a powwow dance class to explore the importance of finding community in urban spaces and powwow etiquette. A new exhibit called 'the bomb' has opened at the University of New Mexico's Zimmerman Library. The exhibit takes visitors through a series of images, archival footage and film clips documenting the unsettling history and uncertain future of the world's most dangerous machine: nuclear weapons.

KUNM News Director Megan Kamerick sits down with the exhibit's two creators and a university professor to discuss the project. NMiF airs on NMPBS 5.1 (KNME HD) on Friday, May 9, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 11 at 7 a.m. and streaming on the PBS video app. ​ Host Nash Jones NMiF Segments NMPBS General Manager on Proposed Federal Cuts to Public Media Correspondent Gwyneth Doland Guest Franz Joachim, general manager and CEO, NMPBS Failing Water Architecture in NM Correspondent Elizabeth Miller Guest Adrian Oglesby, director, UNM Utton Transboundary Resources Center The Power of Powwows Host Bella Davis (Yurok) Director Joey Dunn (Diné) Producers Bella Davis (Yurok), Joey Dunn (Diné), Benjamin C Yazza (Diné) Guests Niko DeRoin-Silva (Otoe-Missouria / Choctaw) Juanita Growing Thunder (Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes) Jessa Rae Growing Thunder (Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes) Wil Gover (Pawnee / Tohono O'odham / Cherokee) ‘the bomb’ Exhibit Shows the Horror of Nuclear Weapons Correspondent Megan Kamerick Guests Eric Schlosser, co-creator, journalist and author, 'the bomb' Exhibit Smriti Keshari, co-creator and film director, 'the bomb' Exhibit Myrriah Gómez, associate professor, University of New Mexico Honors College New Mexico in Focus is the New Mexico PBS prime-time news magazine show covering the events, issues, and people shaping life in New Mexico and the Southwest.

NMiF takes a multi-layered look at social, political, economic health, education, and art issues and explores them in-depth with a critical eye to give them context beyond the "news of the moment." NMPBS Executive Producer, Public Affairs, is Jeff Proctor. New Mexico in Focus's senior producer for public affairs is Lou DiVizio.

“Our Land” Senior Producer is Laura Paskus. The producer of New Mexico in Focus is Antonio Sanchez, and co-producer is Kathy Wimmer. Funding for New Mexico in Focus is provided by the McCune Charitable Foundation and Viewers Like You.

Funding for the Your New Mexico Government Project comes from the Thornburg Foundation and New Mexico Local News Fund. The Neeper Natural History Programming Fund for KNME-TV provides funding for Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present & Future.