Michael Sperberg-McQueen

Dear Marian, My name is Ana Alicia Ortiz. I was a high school schoolmate of Michael's and a friend. His kindness and intelligence and support for my creativity greatly influenced my life and the great success i was able to achieve in my acting career. He actually published my first poem in our HighSchool newspaper. He was a friend I not only admired but was so so fond of. He truly was so kind to me. My heart is with you and his family. If you would like to get in touch here is my email:...

Michael was a dear colleague and a member of the New Mexico Resistance Action Group, as were Liz Gold, Lee Goodwin, Debbie Denison, and I. We gathered collaborators and concerned citizens regularly at our homes, especially in the years of 2017 and 2018, supporting initiatives on health care, elections, toxic spraying, climate change and alternative energy sources, and more. For the years thereafter when NM Resistance focused on collaborations with Indivisible, Retake Our Democracy, and other...

Roxanne and I were so saddened to have just found out of Michael´s passing. He was an absolutely invaluable volunteer with Retake Our Democracy since its inception. He took on any task reliably and with good humor. More than that Michael was a person grounded in progressive ideals who cared deeply about bettering the lives of others. He was one of those rare souls who consistently put his ideals into practice through his activism and nearly daily appearance at the NM state legislature,...

Michael generously and patiently directed his great expertise and wide knowledge to a project whose chance of success at times looked to be slight, always with encouragement and good humor. It was a privilege for me to have been associated with him over the course of many decades. His passing is a great shock to me, as I know it is to so many.