Mr. Córdova's positions in municipal, state, and the Federal government afford him an extensive network of friends and professional relationships that he puts in service to his clients. He has worked ten years in Washington, DC and fifteen years in municipal and state governments in New Mexico. For the past thirteen years he has owned the Córdova Public Relations Company, serving clients throughout New Mexico and West Texas. He was selected recently as one of New Mexico's power brokers by the New Mexico Business Weekly.

His professional career started with the City of Albuquerque Environment Department where he met Pete Domenici who was running for City Council. When Domenici won a seat on the council and elected Mayor Pro-temp, he selected Córdova to head a community development department tasked with writing grant applications for federal downtown and neighborhood urban renewal programs, a public housing program, a neighborhood improvement project and the Model Cities Program. All these applications were approved and Córdova was appointed Albuquerque's first Model Cities Program Director.

In 1976, when Domenici became senior senator from New Mexico, he brought Córdova to Washington, DC where he was assigned to organize and manage a joint office for the New Mexico Congressional Delegation. The office serves institutional constituents of the delegation. It was the first such office in Congress and continues to serve the delegation. After leaving the delegation office, Córdova served clients whose need to monitor administrative, regulatory, and legislative activities in Washington, DC varied greatly. Some of his clients included The Albuquerque Public Schools, the University of New Mexico, the Adolph Coors Company in Golden, Colorado and various Indian tribes.

While in state government, Córdova was director of the State Health Planning Agency, executive assistant to the secretary of Health and Human Services as well as director for Social Services Agency third party contracts.

Mr. Córdova maintains a strong commitment to volunteer service as well as a broad business network. Some of the boards on which he serves include the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce (secretary), the U. S. Senator Dennis Chavez Foundation (President), the City of Albuquerque Museum Board of Trustees (Vice Chair), and the Lovelace Medical Center Governing Board. Córdova also maintains memberships in the Albuquerque Rotary Club, the Economic Forum, Albuquerque Economic Development, New Mexico First Forum, the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce the Public Relations Society of America, and the UNM Alumni Letterman's Club.

Ms. Burroughs has more than 30 years experience in the area of communications, including public relations, crisis management, and community relations in both the public and private sector. She is a prolific writer who specializes in writing about energy, particularly alternative energy. She most recently spent 11 years as a public affairs specialist/science writer at Sandia National Laboratories where many of her news releases were picked up by major news media and appeared on thousands of web sites around the world. She also was part of an Emergency Operations Center team that convened when an emergency incident occurred at the Labs.

Ms. Burroughs started her career as a newspaper reporter and worked for eight years at several newspapers in Texas, including the Austin American Statesman. She transitioned to public relations in the early 1980s and was employed as a public relations specialist for the Texas Rehabilitation Commission and later as an account executive for the Hirst Company, a full service public relations firm affiliated with the international company Hill & Knowlton. While working for the Hirst Company, she became knowledgeable about crisis communications; Hirst owners, Lee and Marie Hirst, specialized in the field.

During the first part of the 1990s, she was a senior public affairs specialist at the University of New Mexico where her interest in science blossomed. For the eight years she was there, Ms. Burroughs wrote about and promoted all the science departments and became editor of Mirage, the university's research publication. One of her science news releases – about a UNM scientist who contradicted NASA researchers' claims that life once existed on Mars based on a study of a sliver of a rock from that planet – received national acclaim.

Ms. Burroughs is active in her community, serving on the boards as a volunteer of Albuquerque Press Women, New Mexico Press Women, and the Central New Mexico League of Women Voters (CNMLWV). She is a past president of both the local and state Press Women organizations and currently coordinates the state organization's high school communications journalism contest, the only statewide communications contest for teens. She also serves as the editor of the Voter, the monthly newsletter of CNMLWV. She was featured in an issue of Albuquerque the Magazine.

Ms. Burroughs has won many awards from Press Women and the Public Relations Society America for her writing and public relations efforts. Her 1996 masters thesis that compared the Albuquerque Journal's influence on state media to the New York Times' influence on national media won a first place in the National Federation of Press Women (NFPW) communication contest. In 1998 she was a finalist in the Albuquerque YWCA Women on the Move contest. Also that year she won the New Mexico Press Women's Communicator of Achievement and went on to compete for the NFPA Communicator of Achievement award.

Ms. Burroughs has a BA in journalism from Kent State University and an MA in communication from the University of New Mexico.