From the LAVA Center. I'm Alfonso Neal, and this is the indiVISIBLE Hour.

In April, The LAVA Center hosted its first indivisible stories event as part of the project's speaker's series to promote, highlight, and share community members' stories, triumphs, and struggles.

We invited Claudia Rosales and Patricia Lopez, both migrant farmworkers and local farmworker labor leaders, who have played an instrumental role in organizing and providing workers with the tools needed to secure better working conditions—especially during the Covid Pandemic years, where farmworkers were still out in the fields, risking their health and well-being, harvesting, the produce going into daily meals for those of us locked indoors—and championed the need for improved and robust labor laws that would guarantee sick days, overtime pay, and regular breaks for farm workers nationwide.

It's a challenging role, but as they both said and I quote, "We will do whatever it takes to improve the lives of the Latino community's workers and their families; we don't mind the fight because, at the end of the day, someone has to do it, we can't just sit around and wait anymore."

So, let us now listen in on Claudia and Patricia's stories.