About Warigia

Warigia Bowman is a third-generation New Mexican, a law professor at the University of New Mexico, and a proud product of public service and public schools. With 17 years of classroom teaching experience and a deep family legacy rooted in education.

She holds a J.D. with honors from the University of Texas, a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard, and degrees from Columbia and Los Alamos High. A former U.S. Department of Justice trial attorney, her legal and academic work has been featured in The New York Times, PBS, CNN, and Democracy Now.

A mother of three children educated in Albuquerque Public Schools, Warigia is running to ensure strong, equitable education, and to keep public schools public in District 6. On weekends, you’ll find her hiking New Mexico trails or rafting its rivers.

Margaret “Warigia” Bowman: A Lifetime of Education

• Law Professor, University of New Mexico

• Honors Trial Attorney, United States Department of Justice (under President Clinton)

• J.D. with Honors, University of Texas, Austin

• Ph.D., Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

• B.A. Columbia College, Columbia University

• Los Alamos High School

• Girl Scout Troop Leader