This summer, Grist published several stories about farmworkers facing extreme weather events, including heat waves and hurricanes. Ayurella Horn-Muller, Grist’s Florida-based food and agriculture reporter, examined how climate change exacerbates the hurdles farmworkers face in accessing food, as well as how this population is largely overlooked by federal, state, and local emergency response efforts.
In order to ensure this reporting reaches the communities it focuses on and that need it most, Senior Manager of Community Engagement Lyndsey Gilpin worked with Horn-Muller to create guides for farmworkers and immigrant community members across Florida. The guides included critical information about food access, disaster preparedness, and immigrants’ rights.
Gilpin held two conversations over Zoom: one, in English, with a researcher and several representatives from farmworker advocacy organizations in Florida; and another, in Spanish, with two community health workers, or promotores de salud, who often work with farmworkers. They discussed their chal... Read more
