Mr. Tyrrell became the New Mexico Chapter’s first executive director in 1987. Prior to assuming these duties, he was executive director of the Los Alamos Council of Alcoholism, Assistant Professor of Social Work at the College of Santa Fe, and a program supervisor for the Navajo Tribal Social Services.

Mr. Tyrrell received his MSW from Loyola University (Chicago) and his M.P.A from the University of New Mexico. He is Co-Chair of the New Mexico Coalition to Repeal the Death Penalty, immediate past President of Health Action New Mexico, and Vice – President of NAMASTE Foster Care Services. In 1999, Tyrrell received NASW’s national Executive of the Year Award.

Mr. Tyrrell is married to (retired) social worker Maiya and the proud adoptive father to two schnauzers, Mozart and Queen Victoria.

Jennifer Redhouse has been the Office Manager for NASW-NM since 2007.

She is originally from the small community of Navajo, NM. Mrs. Redhouse is Navajo and her clans are the Mud clan, born for the Two Waters Flow Together, Black Sheep, and Tangle People. She received her associate’s degree in Business Administration from the University of New Mexico Valencia Campus.

Mrs. Redhouse and her family are members of MADD, as a result of her husband surviving a life threatening crash in 2006 involving a drunk driver. She is married to her high school sweetheart and has two girls; after 10 years they are welcoming another little one into their family at the end of December, 2008.