"The Committee is charged with providing comment on [Employment Security] department rulemaking, policies, implementation of the H-2A temporary agriculture program, and initiatives, and studying issues it determines require consideration. In even years the Committee is required to submit a report to the governor and the legislature by October 31st..."

I worked closely with the Board and our in-coming staff to get the EFI from concept to a vibrant, innovative organization

I led the UFW's work developing programs that improved the lifes of farmworkers that were no predicated on collective bargaining. I co-founded the Equitable Food Initiative, a multi-stakeholder, certification and workplace skill development organization. I was also instrumental in founding CIERTO, an ethical international recruiting agency. At the outset of then pandemic, I led the union's negotiations with the WA agricultural employers resulting in an agreement that then became the basis of the rules the State subsequently adopted, establishing binding requirements at worksites, employer provided housing and transportation. I worked closely with farmworkers helping to elevate additional concerns to industry leaders, elected officials and the media. I have been interviewed widely; appearing in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, CNN, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and other publications. Before the UFW asked me to refocus my time on the development of new models, I directed the union's collective bargaining work in the Pacific Northwest. We tripled the union's membership, doing so using creative campaigns to achieve collective bargaining agreements, as neither Oregon or Washington have any laws that guide this process.

I started my career working in support of farmworkers as an intern at PCUN. I graduated to work in the organization's service center, completing the requisite forms to facilitate family reunification petitions. I was later asked to lead the organization's work to win collective bargaining agreements. In this capacity, we signed the first such agreement in Oregon's history. We led a national campaign in support of more than 1000 farmworkers throughout Oregon's Willamette Valley. During this time, we developed a sophisticated pesticide outreach and education program, which led to active engagement with farmworkers, EPA, and state agencies to both highlight the then current shortcoming of regulatory protections and failure to ensure adequate oversight of the same.

I lived in north central Nicaragua, just south of the Honduran border. I collected declarations from civilian victims and witnesses of human rights abuses; kidnappings, rapes, and murders, perpetrated almost in their entiiry by the US back and trained "contras." I also supported the local hospital during their vaccination campaigns into remote rural communities. Finally, I organized and hosted delegations from the US to different communities in the war zone to expose participants to the impact of the US funded war of terror against the Nicaraguan people