Photo Credit: La Voz Hurricane Dorian represents the destruction of property and the interruption of people’s lives all-along the east coast from Southern Florida north.  We are at peak season for the harvest and the migrant farmworker families stand to lose even more than that. It is devastation for these families that have little more than nothing and rely only on their strong backs and their belief in the work ethic to survive.  They come out of Florida in the spring and m

Photo Credit: La Voz I recently attended the funeral of our Godmother Lala Esquibel. Her passing was more than an interruption of the life our families. The closer you got to her two sons in their moment of sorrow, the more devastating was her departure. They say that funerals are a way of coping for those left behind and this certainly was a great example of that purpose. I lost my mother in 2002 after a relatively long illness. Knowing she would be gone soon, she attended o

Dr. David Conde; Photo Credit: La Voz Bilingüe David Conde is not a stranger to immigration, immigrant rights or immigrant needs. In fact, he grew up in a migrant home as part of a family that “traveled the country to put food on people’s tables,” as he tells it. Boards of Directors Professionally, he has both literally and figuratively continued to put food on people’s tables. Conde has spent most of his life fighting to strengthen and uphold immigrant rights. He is the Pr