ENMU-Ruidoso’s Coda Omness Awarded New Mexico Adult Educator of the Year
ENMU-Ruidoso Branch Community College’s Vice President of Student Learning & Success Coda Omness was recognized by the New Mexico Adult Education Association (NMAEA) recently as the New Mexico Adult Educator of the Year.
“Over the past few years, Coda has guided ENMU-Ruidoso’s Adult Education program and her community through unimaginable challenges. Last year, they experienced devastating fires. This year, flooding. And yet, under her leadership and the new leadership of the Director of Adult Education Destini Taylor, the program has not only endured but grown—expanding its early childhood Integrated Education & Training (IET) program and providing scholarships to students so that they can get their early childhood certificate state license, as well as securing Government Results and Opportunity (GRO) funding to serve more learners. Coda truly goes above and beyond to find funding streams that will allow them to serve more learners. Despite facing such a magnitude of challenges, she also continues to submit applications for new IETs, and they intend to execute three in the fall of 2025; early childhood (ECECD), phlebotomy, and certified nursing assistant (CNA). Coda has also been a strong voice for statewide progress, lending her support and leadership to the successful passage of the free High School Equivalency bill. What stands out most is her resilience, her commitment to students, and her unwavering belief that even in the hardest times, education lights the way forward,” said NMAEA Executive Director Jamie Trujillo.
Congratulations Coda!
