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April 14, 2025: New Fort Lewis president on supporting Indigenous, first-gen students; ’12 Tablecloths’

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FILE, Dr. Heather Shotton, who was just confirmed as president of Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo., poses for a photo overlooking the campus on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022.

She was the first in her family to go to college. Now she's a college president, helping other first-gen students navigate higher ed. We speak with the new president of Fort Lewis College, Dr. Heather Shotton, about job readiness in rural Colorado. Then, the San Luis Valley braces for cuts to Medicaid. And artist and historian Chloé Duplessis' new exhibit, "12 Tablecloths" at the Trinidad History Museum, gives a seat at the table to Black domestic workers whose stories were nearly forgotten.