Tina Cordova

Tina Cordova (born 1959) is a New Mexican businesswoman and activist. She was named New Mexico Small Business Person of the Year in 2000. Around the same time she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and she became more aware of the unusually high incidence of cancers and death among friends and family in her community of Tularosa, New Mexico due to their proximity to the Trinity test site. In 2005, she co-founded the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium to seek a federal apology and compensation for those with illnesses and cancers resulting from radiation exposure due to the Trinity test. She is the subject of the documentary film First We Bombed New Mexico.

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