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New Chair, Vice Chair of Farmworker Justice Board of Directors

Newsletters - Spring 2010 Newsletter

The Farmworker Justice Board of Directors has elected Grizelle Apodaca to a two-year term as Chair of the Board and Ramon Ramirez as Vice-Chair. 

Grizelle is President and CEO of Eslabon Associates, a consulting and organizational development firm based in Goodyear, Arizona, near Phoenix. Throughout her career she has assisted many organizations, including Lideres Campesinas, a farmworker women's organization in California, served as Director of Affiliate Services for the National Council of La Raza, in Washington, D.C. and was the monitor-advocate for migrant and seasonal farmworkers in Maryland under a federal-state employment and training program. Grizelle has been serving as the Development Committee Chair on FJ's Board. Grizelle is the first woman to serve as Board chair in the organization's 29-year history.

Ramon Ramirez, the Vice-Chair of the Board, is President of Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (Treeplanters and Farmworkers United of the Northwest, "PCUN"), Oregon's farmworker union, www.pcun.org.  Ramon has co-founded several organizations in Oregon to advance the interests of farmworkers and immigrants. He is also active at the national level with major immigration rights organizations. Ramon and his family live in Woodburn, Oregon.