Valentina Stackl is a Project Coordinator at Farmworker Justice, a nonprofit organization that seeks to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions, immigration status, health, occupational safety, and access to justice.
Valentina Stackl
Valentina Stackl is a Project Coordinator at Farmworker Justice, a nonprofit organization that seeks to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions, immigration stat
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April 10, 2013
Photo caption: A farmworker woman picking grapes. Many farmworker women cover their faces to protect themselves from pesticides while they work. Farmworker women also use bandanas on the job to cover their faces and bodies in an attempt to ward off unwanted sexual attention that often leads to rape. Farmworkers carry the weight of the US food system on their backs. Farmworker women’s load, however, is especially heavy: They work tirelessly in fields and orchards harvesting the fruits and vegetables that we all eat, while facing dangerous conditions, low pay, discriminatory treatment, and...
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