UU member and activist honored!

On September 12, 2019, a member of the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, Immigration/Farmworker activist and Executive Director of Community to Community Rosalinda Guillen received RE Sources Environmental Hero award.

BURLINGTON, WA – 25JULY13 – Migrant farm workers on strike against Sakuma Farms, a large berry grower in northern Washington State, in the labor camp where they live during the picking season. Most are indigenous Mixtec and Triqui migrants from Oaxaca and southern Mexico, but who now live in the U.. They went on strike to raise the piece rate for picking, and to try to stop the grower from bringing in contract guest workers from Mexico to do the work they usually do every year. Rosalinda Guillen, director of Community2Community, an advocacy organization for farm workers and the strike’s main supporter, talks with the strikers. Copyright David Bacon

Rosalinda Guillén
Farmworker justice leader and food system activist. Among many other things, Rosalinda Guillén is a widely recognized farmworker justice leader working to promote food sovereignty, immigration reform, and farmworker rights in Northwest Washington. As the founding executive director of Community to Community Development (C2C), a grassroots organization led by women of color, she and her team work to strengthen local and global movements toward social and environmental justice, amplifying the voices of farmworkers on immigration issues, labor rights, and trade agreements. She also works to strengthen cross-border alliances for immigration reform and fair agricultural policies.

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