James Nakahara is senior farm business advisor at Kitchen Table Advisors, supporting Central Coast farmers and ranchers. Before sitting on a panel for the Zócalo and The James Irvine Foundation event—“‘What Is a Good Job Now?’ In Agriculture”—he joined us in the green room to talk about Santa Cruz surf, James Baldwin, and the value of touching dirt.
Rebecca Plevin is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. Previously she was an editor at the Fresno Bee where she oversaw the bilingual Central Valley News Collaborative. Before …
Juan Uranga was a farmworker attorney for over 40 years and served as executive director of the Center for Community Advocacy, a farmworker housing advocacy organization in Salinas. Before sitting …
José Anzaldo is a rising senior at UC Berkeley and works for Scholar System, an organization promoting equity in education. A Salinas local, he was a farmworker and was featured …
Salinas, California, isn’t just “Steinbeck Country,” its landscape famously memorialized in novels. The Monterey County city is also known as “America’s salad bowl,” for the produce, including lettuce, that is …
This piece publishes as part of the Zócalo/The James Irvine Foundation public program and editorial series, “What Is a Good Job Now?” which investigates low-wage work across California. Watch the event …
