Miguel Zelaya is a veteran farmworker and pesticide safety instructor for the Farmworkers Association in Apopka, Florida. In this mostly Spanish-language podcast, Zelaya discusses how his personal experiences with toxic exposure in the workplace has inspired his career in workplace education, the direct links between income and education and access to healthcare and fair working conditions, and how the struggle for farmworkers’ rights is deeply related to the larger immigrants’ rights movement in the United States.

Farmworker Association of Florida, a SPOHP Podcast Series

If you would like learn more on these issues read Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food by Dale Finley Slongwhite.

Interview conducted and podcasted by Daniel de la Rosa. Intro and Outro by Grace Chun.

https://floridafarmworkers.org/

Music: "Bus at Dawn by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).

Farmworker Association of Florida Collection at University of Florida Samuel Proctor Oral History Program FAF 024 Miguel Zelaya.

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