The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is an award-winning worker-led human rights organization based in Immokalee, Florida, internationally recognized for its impact in combatting long-standing human rights abuses in the agriculture industry from wage theft and dangerous working conditions to sexual assault and forced labor. As the creator of the Presidential Medal-winning Fair Food Program,... [Read more]
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Occupational Health Internship Program
Internship Dates: June 20 - August 18, 2023 Organization Description: The Occupational Health Internship Program is a national summer program dedicated to help students learn about the field of occupational safety and health (OSH) from those with most at stake: working people. Since 2004, OHIP has played a key role in training, mentoring and inspiring a new... [Read more]
My time at SAF has been invaluable to me and I am so thankful for the lessons...
Lauren Moore, Solidaridad Intern, 2023 While all of SAF was incredibly educational and formational for me, the issue which was most revealed to me during my time in my internship is the current and ongoing devastating effects of racialized capitalism. With SAF I learned the history of agricultural exceptionalism and how farm workers have been... [Read more]
It is part of my own personal goal to tell the stories of farmworkers
Teresa Vazquez, SOL Intern 2022 A sandwich has a couple of key ingredients. Two slices of bread will hold several ingredients that when combined will create a satiating sandwich. Mayonnaise may coat the slices of bread, providing a savory coating to final ingredients. Then, any kind of deli meat, maybe turkey or ham. Next, if... [Read more]
Food First - Student Intern (Summer 2023)
About the Opportunity: A Food First student intern, you may contribute to the formation, implementation, and evaluation of new programs, communications, business operations, and strategic initiatives. Interns will work directly with staff to execute the new strategic direction for the organization by logging 32 hours per week for up to 10 weeks with a monthly stipend of... [Read more]
I Have A Giant Community Of Support To Rely On
Sam Hernandez, Cosecha Intern, 2022 During the beginning of my participation with the Cosecha Fellowship, I didn't know what truths I was going to have to face about myself in this field of work. From the very first retreat, I realized we were all going to face the hard topics and truths that surround this... [Read more]
Deciding to go up to the bus
Nathaly Trinidad Flores, 2022 SAF internSC Migrant Education Program Being confident in your work and intentions is a mindset I quickly had to adopt once starting to work with the South Carolina Migrant Education Program. This confidence helps make the message and services we are trying to provide more valuable and enriching to farmworkers. In... [Read more]
Growth
Christian Sanchez, 2022 SAF internNC Farmworkers' Project This plant resembles a lot of things in my opinion. To me, it resembles "GROWTH". Growth in a way that things can change for the better. This is what I want for my job, my peers, and for the people who work and suffer in farm work. I... [Read more]
Values that align with my own
Grace Calus, 2022 SAF internFarmworker Advocacy Network As an intern with SAF, the NC Justice Center, and the Farmworker Advocacy Network, I find that all 3 of these organizations hold and highlight values that align with my own. I see these values internally through the organizational structures and leadership within these organizations and externally through... [Read more]
A bountiful harvest of social change
– Coltan Compton, 2022 SAF internEl Vinculo Hispano It was an expectedly hot and humid North Carolina summer day; like most days of the season, it was just shy of unbearable. The vehicle of interns I was in trembled on the gravel road towards our destination, a modest labor camp of eight farmworkers in Dunn.... [Read more]
I’m sent by myself and the desires of my heart
– Claire Burke, 2022 SAF InternPiedmont Health Services When I told people that I was going to be interning with Student Action with Farmworkers as a health intern, I was met with disapproval. Some of my family and friends thought that the internship was a joke or an odd cause. I had people ask me... [Read more]
My mother's influence
– Alejandra Geronimo, 2022 SAF InternPiedmont Health Services I am the daughter of a single immigrant farmworker mother. A woman who came to the United States from Veracruz, Mexico, seeking the American dream. A woman who dreams of a better life and opportunities for her children. I am a first-generation college student at Valdosta State... [Read more]