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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Quirina Vallejos

April 17, 2025 by chris

Quirina Vallejos

Quirina Vallejos is a Chicana who grew up in Colorado, participated in Latine student groups in high school and college and discovered a passion for social justice by participating in spring break community service trips while an undergraduate at Duke University. Quirina earned a Master of Public Health focused on community health education at the […]

September 30, 2021 by Anna Jensen

Diana Ibarra

Diana joined the team in 2020 to help coordinate our COVID response. She is the person to reach for COVID testing, vaccine coordination, and questions about COVID resources! We are in awe of her attention to detail and organizational skills. She lives in Benson with her family.   Diana se junto al equipo en 2020 […]

Neissly Tapia

August 9, 2017 by Anna Jensen

Neissly Tapia

Neissly Tapia is originally from Chihuahua, Mexico, in the beautiful Tarahumara mountains. She is the youngest of nine children and arrived to the United States when she was 15 years old. Through the years, she has discovered that serving the community is her passion, especially the migrant community, because she has experienced their fears and […]

Balbina Cerro

August 9, 2017 by Anna Jensen

Balbina Cerro

Balbina Cerro first became involved with farmworkers as a volunteer working with various nonprofits at local health fairs in her community. In this capacity she learned about the available resources and about the importance of preventative health care through education. Balbina has extensive past experience as a community educator, including working with March of Dimes and […]

Janeth Tapia

June 7, 2017 by Anna Jensen

Maria Elena Mejia

Maria Elena Mejia, originally from Honduras, joined the North Carolina Farmworkers Project as an Outreach Worker is 2010. Maria currently serves as the Lead Outreach Worker and the Coordinator of the Benson Health Clinic. She also coordinates many visits for farmworker who need to be seen by specialists. Working with farmworkers brings Maria such love, […]

Janeth Tapia

June 7, 2017 by Anna Jensen

Janeth Tapia

Janeth Tapia began working with the North Carolina Farmworkers Project in 2000 as an AmeriCorps volunteer providing health education to women farmworkers. Janeth was originally drawn to working with the agricultural community because she saw that they were some of the least privileged people with the most significant needs in the rural areas where she […]

Ana Beltran

March 28, 2017 by chris

Ana Beltran

Ana Beltran loves working with farmworkers and enjoys taking the time to get to know each of their personalities and learn about their different cultures. She also loves working as a team with her NCFWP coworkers where she works hard to practice open communication which allows her and the entire team to achieve more together. […]

March 28, 2017 by chris

Gabriela Elvir (Vicky)

Gabriela Elvir finished her high school and some college studies in her native country of Honduras. She began working at the NC Farmworkers’ Project as an AmeriCorps volunteer, training farmworkers in health education topics of pesticide safety and heat illness. In December 2012 she graduated as a Safe AmeriCorps. Afterwards, she began work at the […]

March 13, 2017 by chris

Leonardo Galvan

Leonardo Galvan currently works as an outreach worker in the health program, where he leads a promotores program with farmworkers, inviting workers themselves to be lay health leaders among their peers. Before serving in this capacity at the Project, for 13 years he conducted research projects with Wake Forest University, where he gained experience in […]

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