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Jinx Baskerville
Jinx Baskerville ran for election to the Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education to represent District 3 in New Mexico. She lost in the general election on November 2, 2021.
Baskerville completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2021
See also: Albuquerque Public Schools, New Mexico, elections (2021)
General election
General election for Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education District 3
Danielle Gonzales defeated Jinx Baskerville, Ali Ennenga, and Lucas Gauthier in the general election for Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education District 3 on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Danielle Gonzales (Nonpartisan)  | 41.5 | 7,609 |
 | Jinx Baskerville (Nonpartisan) | 38.7 | 7,090 | |
 | Ali Ennenga (Nonpartisan) | 12.0 | 2,207 | |
| Lucas Gauthier (Nonpartisan) | 7.7 | 1,416 | ||
| Total votes: 18,322 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Jinx Baskerville completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Baskerville's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Equity should be at the forefront of every decision made by the APS Board. It’s important to have more diversity among teachers so students see themselves in who is teaching them. We must have diversity in curriculum that represents all students and allows our teachers to teach classes focused on Ethnic Studies, African American Studies, Native American Studies, Chicano and Chicana Studies, Asian American Studies, and amplify the voices and stories of all historically marginalized groups in the classroom. Too many of our students aren’t feeling heard, represented, or valued. Our students of color begin to feel “less than”, especially when they are offered no critical analysis of how things came to be unequal in this country around racial
- Community Voices: I want to strategize with community! We can do a better job of bringing more community voices into our schools. We must make it a priority to meet families where they are most comfortable - in their own communities. This includes utilizing nonprofit organizations, businesses, and community centers as gathering spaces. We need family centers in every school that will also provide access to technology and other tools and opportunities families need. Family members and students should be at the table and be part of district committees. Students and families should have a voice within their school. If elected to the School Board, I will prioritize strategizing with the community for lasting change.
- Policy: We can demystify school policies! It’s difficult to find school policies that are accessible to all family members, much less published in multiple languages in places where families gather in their communities. There is a Policy Committee of the Board and I believe this committee would benefit greatly by having family/community representation. We don’t serve the language needs of our students partly because of the credentialing requirement of interpreters. We’ve had to rely on our networks of people to provide interpretation for free because speakers of different languages aren’t allowed access to opportunities to interpret even when there is a shortage of interpreters.
It’s important that we bring in anti-racism trainings to all students and staff in APS. It’s a must. If we are to teach students of color and bring in the true histories that reflect all cultures, we have to understand how this country came to be so inequitable along racial lines, and really get in touch with our own biases. We need to understand institutional and systemic racism and how it plays out in our schools and in our hearts and minds. It’s important to bring in ethnic studies, Chicano/Chicane Studies, Native American Studies, African American Studies, and Asian Pacific Islander Studies, so that students feel empowered and validated for who they are. We need to bring in the histories and cultures that surround our schools and utilize them in learning. I know firsthand what it’s like to not have that opportunity growing up, and I don’t want that for any other student.
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy. I remember my mother running into the living room shocked and yelling that he had been assassinated. I was very young at the time and didn't know what was going on. All I knew was the intensity of my moms expression and tone that made me feel like it was big news.
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See also
2021 Elections
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