About the Authors

Phil T. Archuletta is a native New Mexican, born in
the town of El Rito, located in Rio Arriba County. He is one of the founders of
Ojo Caliente Craftsman, a company that went on to be one of the largest
manufacturers in Northern New Mexico in the 1970s and 1980s. 
Today he is the Chief Executive Officer of P&M Signs, Inc. located in Mountainair. His clients include the U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, the Department of Game and Fish, Bureau of Land Management, the New Mexico Department of Transportation, and numerous cities, counties, and municipalities throughout the United States. He has the distinction of having one of the few Smokey Bear franchises in the country. You can find his signs throughout the entire U.S. Forest Service and National Park System.
In addition to his “day job”, Phil has been inventing and patenting products throughout his lifetime. He has five patents including an anti-vandalism hardware device known as the “Tuffnut”.
Women Marked for History won the New Mexico Heritage Preservation Award in 2015. 

Rosanne Roberts Archuletta was
born in Philadelphia and raised near the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, in a
small town called Bangor. She spent most of her adult life living and creating
a business in San Francisco. As a volunteer, she was on the Board and was an
Instructor and Business Coach at the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center for
nearly a decade.

Since 1989, she has been the principal of R.M.
Roberts and Associates, a human resources consulting firm. Her firm provided
training and coaching, staff recruiting and business consulting to
organizations throughout the United States, including Citibank, Visa
Corporation, Stanford University, among others. She is a dynamic speaker who
has lectured nationally on topics related to professional and personal
development. She was a speaker at a conference organized by the United Nations on
the status of women, held in Beijing, China in 1995. She was also a speaker at
the Pennsylvania State University’s College of Liberal Arts’ Career Day in
2005.

Women Marked for History won the New Mexico Heritage Preservation Award in 2015.