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Civic research · Santa Fe, New Mexico

The numbers have a landscape.

Juniper Civic Institute translates municipal data into the contours of Santa Fe — research briefs, town halls, dashboards and county planning that keep every figure attached to a place.

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Contour study — Santa Fe County 35.6870° N, 105.9378° W

01 — Municipal data dashboards

Data that knows where it lives.

We build dashboards for counties, municipalities and the public. Every measure is tied to the district, corridor or watershed it describes, so a figure can always be read against the ground it came from.

Read by District Corridor Watershed

02 — County planning consulting

Plans that follow the contours.

We work with counties and communities on the ground truth of growth: where the water runs, where the roads end, and where the next wave of development should not go. Research first, then the plan.

  • 01
    Land use & growth corridors Where development is asked for, and what the ground can carry.
  • 02
    Water, acequias & watersheds Traditional systems and municipal supply, read together.
  • 03
    Transportation & access Routes, crossings and the corridors that hold a county together.
  • 04
    Community facilities Schools, clinics and gathering places, placed against need.
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Mapping session — contours drawn over the county base
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Public town hall — held in the districts the research concerns

03 — Briefs, town halls & speakers

Rooms where the numbers get argued about.

Research only matters if it is public. We publish briefs, convene town halls across the county, and host a speaker series that puts researchers, planners and residents in the same room.

  • Policy research briefs

    Plain-language findings on the questions the county is actually asking.

  • Public town halls

    Open sessions held where the research lands, not only where it is written.

  • Speaker series

    Researchers and residents in conversation, on the record.

04 — Civic leadership fellowship

Learn to read a county the way you read a page.

The fellowship is for people who want to work where research meets public life in Santa Fe. Fellows work alongside the institute on policy research briefs, municipal data dashboards, town halls and county planning — learning the craft by doing it in public.

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Civic leadership fellowship — working sessions
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Bring the numbers home.

Whether you need a research brief, a dashboard for your district, or a plan that holds up in a public meeting — start here.

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