NationofChange
An invisible essential labor force
How the migrant women farmworkers who put food on our tables are organizing for a better life after the pandemic.
Monica Ramirez is working to change that.
“I’m the first generation in my family that didn’t have to work in
the fields to make a living,” Ramirez told me. “So I was raised to be
part of this movement and fight on behalf of my community.”
Ramirez founded Justice for Migrant Women
after creating the first legal project in the United States dedicated
to addressing gender discrimination against farmworker women. That legal