Meet The Team
Publisher
Lindsay Wood
Lindsay Wood was a founding member Downtown Albuquerque News. She also started Nob Hill News and the International District News.
A project manager turned publisher, her strengths are finding the best people and her stoic ability to sit through long neighborhood association meetings.
Lindsay grew up in the North Valley off Chaves Road and attended Alvarado Elementary. While she now lives near UNM, she finds herself still a regular in the valley with a mom who lives there and long list of favorite ditches she frequents with her dog Nigel.
She wants North Valley News to feel like a small-town paper for this area.
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Editor
Gail Guengerich
Gail Guengerich has been getting disenchanted and re-enamored by Albuquerque since she moved to town in 2000.
Just when she’s about to go full curmudgeon, yelling, "Stop it, Albuquerque!" while kicking a dusty can into the path of a stray cat, she finds some new, hidden and beautiful facet of the city and repents.
She has worked as a freelance editor and at various nonprofits as an English second-language teacher. Her writing has appeared in the Weekly Alibi, Edible Santa Fe, Nob Hill News, Downtown Albuquerque News, the Austin Chronicle and Blue Mesa Review.
Reporter
Carolyn Carlson
Carolyn Carlson is an award- winning journalist covering local government for over 30 years in Central New Mexico.
She is the former owner/publisher of The Estancia Valley/Torrance County Citizen, and a veteran of the Albuquerque Journal, Weekly Alibi, New Mexico Compass,The Paper and City Desk ABQ.
The Rio Grande Valley is in her blood. She was born in the South Valley, grew up at Montaño and Guadalupe Trail (before the bridge), attended Douglas MacArthur Elementary, Taft Junior High and graduated in 1977 from Valley High School.
Carolyn is also a licensed private investigator and was an elected public official serving on the Estancia Town Council from 1995 to 2000.
She serves on the Governing Council for the New Mexico Academy for the Media Arts. She is also a co-chair for the annual New Mexico Press Women's Communications Contest.
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Reporter
Damon Scott
Damon Scott was first bitten by the news bug as a sophomore at Sandia High School and has gone on to be an editor and reporter for digital and print media across his home state of New Mexico and in South Florida.
Damon has worked for the Seminole Tribune, South Florida Gay News, the Daily Lobo, Albuquerque Business First, the Taos News, The Paper, City Desk ABQ, Nob Hill News and many other organizations.
He’s covered government, housing, homelessness, Indian Country, the LGBTQ community, restaurants, retail, real estate, the economy and more. Send him an email at damonscott87@gmail.com.
Reporter
Leslie Baca
Leslie Baca is a reporter who graduated from the University of New Mexico in 2024 with a bachelor’s degree in English and a minor in Philosophy. Her work has also appeared in Nob Hill News.
With a passion for both creative writing and journalism, she brings a unique perspective to the community that she covers– especially in the North Valley, where her work in the area offers a firsthand connection to the people and places that shape it.
Email her at bacaleslie01@gmail.com
Reporter
Tina Deines
Tina Deines has been writing ever since she picked up her first crayon, crafting poetry and short stories as a child.
Today, she channels her creative energy into journalism and has written for a variety of local and national publications, including New Mexico Magazine and National Geographic.
She focuses much of her reporting on wildlife, the environment and agriculture. One of her favorite stories saw her traveling around Mexico City to report about axolotl conservation and ancient artificial agricultural islands called chinampas.