What Does Justice Look Like For Farmworkers? with Mónica Ramírez

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Comedy, Education

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This week on Getting Curious, we’re going from table to farm to learn more about where our food comes from, and who is producing it. Activist and lawyer Mónica Ramírez joins Jonathan to discuss the history of farmwork in the United States, the labor conditions facing contemporary farmworkers, and the work she and her peers are doing to prioritize legal and mental health support for farmworker communities. Mónica Ramírez is an attorney, author and activist. She is the founder of Justice for Migrant Women and co-founder of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, The Latinx House, and Poderistas (formerly She Se Puede). Mónica has received numerous awards, including Harvard Kennedy School’s first Gender Equity Changemaker Award, Feminist Majority’s Global Women’s Rights Award and the Smithsonian’s 2018 Ingenuity Award. She was named to Forbes Mexico’s 100 Most Powerful Women’s 2018 list and TIME Magazine included her in its 2021 TIME100 Next list. Mónica is also an inaugural member of the Ford Global Fellowship. Follow Monica on Instagram @activistmonicaramirez and Twitter @MonicaRamirezOH. Justice for Migrant Women is on Instagram and Twitter @mujerxsrising, and at justice4women.org. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Get In Curious!
0:02.6	I'm Jonathan Vanness, and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation with a truly brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:11.0	On today's episode, I'm joined by lawyer and activist Monika Ramirez, where I ask her,
0:16.4	what does Justice look like for farm workers?
0:22.0	Welcome to Get In Curious, I'm so excited for our guest this week.
0:24.8	Welcome Monika Ramirez, who is the founder and president of Justice for Migrant Women. She is also one of the organizers behind Healing Voices, a new mental health initiative for farm workers.
0:35.4	Monika, welcome to the show!
0:37.2	Thank you Jonathan, I'm glad to be here.
0:39.3	I'm trying to do this fierce thing where I don't compliment people on physical appearances so much because I'm trying to be like 2021 and everything.
0:47.8	But this gorgeous purple you're wearing today, I can't, it's just you're giving me these colors today and your background is like super pretty on your wall.
0:57.6	So I just had to give you, I had to, I'm sorry.
1:00.2	Oh, well thank you. I appreciate the love for my wall because these are some of the clients I represented and some of my role models, so all the love accepted.
1:08.1	Okay, so I'm taking a hard right turn really quick because you just said some of the folks that you've represented, does that make you like a stunning lawyer?
1:16.1	I am in fact a stunning lawyer, thank you.
1:20.0	I love multifaceted queen.
1:22.9	Yes.
1:23.7	Okay.
1:24.9	So really part of what our framing question for today is, is how are farm workers protected in the United States?
1:34.0	Who are farm workers?
1:35.3	What is going on?
1:36.4	I think it's something that we eat food.
1:39.6	Like all of us, you know, we go to eat food, we go to the grocery store, but I just started gardening last year.
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