Raising awareness of farmworker deaths in North Carolina's fields
The Farmworker Institute is a project of the NC Council of Churches’ Farmworker Ministry Committee in collaboration with the NC Office of the National Farm Worker Ministry. We are supported by a generous grant from The Duke Endowment. The Farmworker Ministry Committee is made up of a diverse group of advocacy, health and faith-based organizations, representing a statewide collaboration dedicated to improving the working and living conditions of our state’s farmworkers.
We work to improve conditions of farmworkers through public awareness, advocacy, service, support for organizing, and resolutions of endorsement. We are currently engaged in a strategic effort to help identify and mobilize faith-based allies in the movement for farmworker justice.
Our new website, resources and events are part of this initiative. Contact us for more information.
Current Members:
- Nadeen Bir, Student Action with Farmworkers
- Julia Elsee, Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina
- Justin Flores, Farm Labor Organizing Committee
- Connie Gates, Church Women United
- Alexandria Jones, National Farm Worker Ministry – NC
- Omar Laínez, Legal Aid of North Carolina – Farmworker Unit
- Chris Liu-Beers, NC Council of Churches
- Mary Johnson Rockers, North Carolina Farmworker Health Program
- Melinda Wiggins, Student Action with Farmworkers