Eric W. Receives Leadership Award

On November 15th, author Eric Renz-Whitmore received an award for Industry Leadership from the New Mexico Information Technology and Software Association! Great leapin’ horny toads! It’s about time!

Anybody who has done anything in New Mexico having to do with — well, video games, data visualization, movie making, special effects, or anything else that goes under the giant umbrella of “media industries” — they all know Eric. He is probably the hardest working man I know, and I know people who make the Puritans look like hippie slackers on codeine.

Eric wrangles conferences, sits on panels, meets everyone who walks across his field of vision, and remembers all of it. He writes, presents, and represents. Eric has made it his personal mission to do what he can to help the creative and technical communities knit themselves together. He’s what you call “the guy who knows a guy,” but only if you only know him a little bit. Knowing him better, one starts to realize what a generous, creative, people-minded powerhouse of constructive zen this fellow is.

Invite him to lunch sometime. Good things will materialize soon after.

The UNM ARTS Lab, which is one of Eric many babies, played a generous and crucial role to the production of In The Wind. So did Eric himself, having written the script and all. We owe a lot to Eric’s dedication and effort in so many different arenas, and I’m personally gratified to see him get the professional recognition he has long deserved. Congratulations, Eric!

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