NC Farmworkers Project

NC Farmworkers Project

The NC Farmworkers’ Project serves as the resource center, home base, and connection to care for more than 2,000 farmworkers in five counties around Benson, North Carolina

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Partnership with Farmworker Advocacy Network

The mission of the Farmworker Advocacy Network (FAN) is to improve the living and working conditions of field and poultry workers in NC through coordination of administrative advocacy, leadership development of workers and young people, implementation of a comprehensive legislative advocacy campaign, and mobilization of allies to support farm labor struggles. Since 2016, the Farmworkers’ Project has led the coordination of FAN and forms an important connection to farmworker communities for the advocacy community.

Background

FAN holds community meetings with workers to discuss their concerns and ways in which we can work together.  We collaborate with researchers to gather information on living and working conditions that can impact laws.  With this collaborative approach, we combine the best research and policy recommendations with the daily lives of workers across North Carolina.

FAN meets with representatives from state and federal administrative agencies to identify and address deficiencies in their enforcement schemes. We work with elected officials to introduce key bills focused on worker health and safety. We conduct participatory workshops with worker leaders, which included information about FAN, Harvest of Dignity, worker rights and policy advocacy, as well as opportunities for workers to give input to our legislative agenda.

Harvest of Dignity

In 2011, we worked with Minnow Media to produce a half-hour documentary video highlighting the conditions of farmworkers in NC today, 50 years after the famous Harvest of Shame documentary aired on national television. The Harvest of Dignity documentary aired on public television and we have held film screenings for thousands of people throughout the state. FAN has also effectively used social media to garner support for increased protections for farmworkers and their families from the general public.

Key Contact

Anna Jensen, Executive Director
Phone: 919-915-9990
Email: annaj@ncfwp.org

Anna Jensen, Executive Director

Phone: 919-915-9990
Email: annaj@ncfwp.org

Anna Jensen first came to work for the Farmworkers’ Project in 2008 as an outreach worker fresh out of college. She served as an outreach worker with the health program for two years before returning to grad school. In those years, she learned more Spanish than in her four years of undergrad and developed an unexpected love for the flat fields of Eastern North Carolina. After completing her graduate studies in Community Development at UC Davis in California, she returned to North Carolina. She couldn’t stay away from the state where she grew up and from the organization that put her in touch with so many of North Carolina’s diverse residents. She has been the Executive Director of the Project since 2014. She is constantly grateful for the dedicated, smart, and fierce staff members with whom she has the privilege of working, and for the farmworkers who make this work worth doing. When not working, she can be found experimenting with baking projects (favorite recipe this year: lemon pound cake), knitting, running, taking pictures of her cat, and experiencing North Carolina’s natural beauty on as many hikes as possible.

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