Ana Jaramillo-Adams joined the staff in 2019 to inaugurate our behavioral health program. She coordinates Telehealth appointments for behavioral health for farmworkers and their families, and is in charge of health education about mental health and self-care. Ana Jaramillo-Adams se integro en el personal en 2019 para empezar nuestro programa de salud emocional. Ella […]
Ana Jaramillo-Adams
Gema Garcia
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
Neissly Tapia is originally from Chihuahua, Mexico, in the beautiful Tarahumara mountains. She is the youngest of nine children born to Jose and Maria Tapia. When she was 15, she came to this beautiful country, and experienced a range of different emotions. Although she had lived her whole life in different places in northern Mexico […]
Balbina Cerro
Balbina has been an outreach worker with the NC Farmworkers’ Project since 2015. She is responsible for outreach in Wake County and organizes much of our work with seasonal farmworker families. Balbina has extensive past experience as a community educator, including working with March of Dimes and working as a promotora with El Pueblo, and she […]
Maria Elena Mejia
Maria Mejia grew up in Honduras, where she also studied. She has worked with the Farmworkers’ Project as an outreach worker since 2010, and now is a trusted source of information and resources for farmworkers in the area. She brings a passion for justice to all of her work. Maria coordinates the summer clinics for […]
Janeth Tapia
Janeth began working with the Farmworkers’ Project as a promotora in 2000. Since then, she has worked on a number of different projects, including promotores projects, research projects with Wake Forest University, and health education. For the last 13 years, she has served as the Outreach Coordinator with the health program. She coordinates visits to […]
Ana Beltran
Ana Beltran is part of the outreach team at the NC Farmworkers Project in Benson, conducting outreach to farmworkers and offering them education on different health topics, referring them to low-cost medical clinics if they need it. This is the second year that Ana has worked as a Certified Application Counselor for ACA at the […]
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 […]