Keep the good conversation going with Rosalinda in a smaller, conversational setting!

Drawing from her roots as a multi-generational Mexican farmworker and her decades of experience in political advocacy and cooperative development, C2C’s founder and executive director Rosalinda Guillen will be speaking on how the principles of a solidarity economy can support us building a truly just food system that respects the dignity of workers, eaters, and our environment. Rosalinda will speak first-hand on the dire economic and political challenges facing immigrant and farmworker communities today. She will be sharing her vision on how the oppressive, quasi-slavery labor structures that have permeated agriculture since the U.S.’s inception can be dismantled and rebuilt to bring C2C’s motto “A Better World is Possible” into reality.

Rosalinda Guillen

Rosalinda Guillen (she/her) is the founder of Community to Community and a lead strategist and visionary within the non-hierarchical ecofeminist leadership of C2C. Her perspective is fundamentally influenced by her introduction to the multi-racial, working-class community organizing model of the Rainbow Coalition, the Cesar Chavez house meeting model, The World Social Forum, the Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil and growing up a farmworker in La Conner, WA. Rosalinda has organized farmworkers in WA State and the strawberry fields of Salinas CA. She has represented farmworkers in the Legislatures of California and Washington State and in ongoing policy and Movement building dialogues on immigration issues, climate change, labor rights, trade agreements, ecofeminism and strengthening the food sovereignty movement towards a Solidarity Economy.