Our theme for National Farmworker Awareness Week this year is Todos Unidos / Everyone Together. For each day of the week of action, we'll be highlighting well-known and lesser-known activists... [Read more]
Grown With Black Hands
To celebrate Black History Month this year, we hosted "Grown with Black Hands: A Panel Discussion with Former Black Sharecroppers and Tenant Farmers." We had a powerful, moving discussion with... [Read more]
New Video: My Role as a Farmworker
Former SAF Levante youth member and current Campbell University student Maria Celeste Carbajal recorded this video about her role as a farmworker youth and advocate. Maria was a co-investigator for... [Read more]
SAF Alumni Survey Results 2021
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A night with the mobile clinic
– Joanna WelbornSAF Communications Arts Director Folding tables and chairs, tents, portable lights and examining tables, extension cords; laptops, cellphones, hotspots, clipboards, forms; masks, scrubs, blood pressure cuffs, water bottles,... [Read more]
What Outreach Looks Like
– Joanna WelbornSAF Communications Arts Director On a recent outreach visit to a labor camp in eastern NC, Farm Labor Organizing Committee organizer Maria Mejia checked in with workers about... [Read more]
What SAF interns are working on this summer:
A meaningful experience from last week was being able to volunteer at the Covid vaccine clinic in Vass to vaccinate a total of 265 farmworkers which is twice as much as... [Read more]
What We're Working On: June 2021
SAF staff and Into the Fields interns participated in a lobby day organized by the Immigrant's Rights Alliance to speak out against anti-immigrant legislation at the General Assembly on June... [Read more]
What We're Working On: May 2021
SAF staff and other Farmworker Advocacy Network (FAN) members and workers met with the NC Department of Labor Commissioner to ask how he will protect farmworkers and other essential workers... [Read more]
2021 National Farmworker Awareness Week Report
Thank you to everyone who helped make NFAW a success this year including our 41 partners spanning 17 different states! Check out our 2021 NFAW report with highlights from our... [Read more]
Welcome ITF Interns!
Welcome to our 2021 SAF Into the Fields interns! This new crop of activists will begin their summer with a five-day virtual orientation to learn about the issues facing farmworkers.... [Read more]