Ana Pacheco
A native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ana Pacheco is the founder and publisher of La Herencia magazine. She’s the daughter of Jesús Pacheco and Natalie Ortiz. Both families have been in Santa Fe since at least the 17th century. Natalie Ortiz was a direct descendant of don Diego de Vargas. Don Gaspar Street in Santa Fe is named after Natalie’s great-great grandfather, Don Gaspar Ortiz. The Ortiz Room at the Santa Fe Hilton Hotel and Ortiz Street located in the plaza area are named in honor of Eleanor and Beatrice Ortiz, Natalie’s aunt and grandmother, respectively. The busy thoroughfare Pacheco Street is named after Ana’s great-great grandfather Jose de la Cruz Pacheco.
Ana Pacheco began her publishing career in 1979 in New York. She has held various positions with entertainment, Hispanic and financial service publications. Ms. Pacheco returned to Santa Fe in 1991 after living in New York for sixteen years. Pacheco served on the Board of Directors for the National Hispanic Cultural Center for the state of New Mexico for seven years. She hosted a weekly Hispanic radio show for Citadel for three years and is currently on the Wells Fargo Community Advisory Board. Pacheco writes the weekly column A Wonderful Life in the Santa Fe New Mexican.
Pacheco received the 2008 Heritage Preservation Award by the City of Santa Fe for Excellence in Community Traditions for her work with La Herencia. She is also a 2007 recipient of the New Mexico Community Foundation Luminaria award for her leadership and contribution to the state of New Mexico. In September 2006 in Denver, Colorado, Pacheco was awarded two national awards by the National Association of Press Women. The first award, in the inspirational book category, as the author of Saints & Seasons: A Guide to New Mexico’s Most Popular Saints. The second award, in the history category, was for editing, Albuquerque Feliz Cumpleaños: Three Centuries to Remember.
Pacheco is also the 2004 recipient of the Governor's Award for outstanding women of New Mexico. She also received an award from PEN New Mexico in 2004 for her efforts to preserve Hispanic culture, history and language. PEN New Mexico is the state's affiliate of the largest international professional association of writers, editors, and translators.
To commemorate La Herencia’s Ten-Year anniversary in 2004, Pacheco published Las Comidas de los Abuelos.. The cookbook contains 128 pages and features an index of the 490 authentic New Mexico recipes. In December 2004 Pacheco published ¡Concha!: The Authorized Biography of Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven, Matriarch of a Three Hundred Year Old New Mexico Legacy written by Kathryn M. Córdova. In June 2005 Pacheco’s company published Albuquerque Feliz Cumpleaños: Three Centuries to Remember written by Nasario García and Richard McCord, to commemorate Albuquerque’s Tri-centennial. In November 2005 Pacheco wrote and published Saints & Seasons: A Guide to New Mexico’s Most Popular Saints.
Genealogy of Ana Pacheco