?Nos entendemos? Idioma como herramienta para servir mejor a los trabajadores
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This session will be held in Spanish. We will provide a basic overview of legal concepts relevant to farmworkers, and engage participants in conversations to foster their confidence in educating Spanish-speaking workers about farmworker rights in layman's terms. For new advocates, this session will provide an overview of various farmworker rights concepts at a basic level. For more seasoned advocates, this session will provide an opportunity to sharpen their Spanish vocabulary with respect to farmworker rights concepts.
- Gain confidence in their ability to communicate information about farmworker rights, in lay person terms, to Spanish speakers of different backgrounds.
- For new advocates, this session will provide an overview of various farmworker rights concepts at a basic level.
- For seasoned advocates, this session will provide an opportunity to sharpen their Spanish vocabulary to make their communications with farmworker clients more effective.
Solimar Mercado-Spencer, n/a
Director of Farmworker Rights Division
Georgia Legal Services Program
Solimar “Soli” Mercado-Spencer is the Director of the Farmworker Rights Division of Georgia Legal Services Program. Originally from Puerto Rico, she graduated from Indiana University McKinney School of Law in 2007. During law school, she was an intern at Indiana Legal Services’ Farmworker Unit. After graduating law school, she worked at Florida Rural Legal Services' Farmworker Unit and, after a long hiatus, she joined the team at GLSP. Her hobbies include botched gardening and spoiling her kids.
Carmen Santiago
Manager-Attorney
Puerto Rico Legal Services-Migrant and Agricultural Unit
Attorney and a Notary Public for Puerto Rico Legal Service for 20 years, 9 years in Migrant and Agricultural Unit. Her academic preparation is a Bachelor degree in Business from University of Puerto Rico, a master’s degree in business administration and Juris Doctor from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico. Before the law studies she manage the family business, a brick oven bakery and pastries industry, while study night shift.
His personal interest are social justice, poetry, yoga, and philanthropy work with his four siblings on his father’s name. We provides monetary assistance to less advantages and small nonprofits organizations. As solo personnel in the Unit she addresses outreach, intakes, and legal representation of workers, providing educational information on radio, TV and regional newspapers.
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