Staff

Griselda came to FWAF in 1995, where she played a key role in the Sisters/Compañeras Program for many years. Through the program, she had the opportunity to educate, inform, train, and support pregnant Hispanic, African American, and Haitian low-income women to have safe pregnancies and healthy births. She later served in the Healthy Start program, assisting farmworker and rural community women with their pregnancies from conception, through birth, trainings on breast-feeding, and prevention of disease, to achieve positive birth outcomes.

Teresa Choc is our Homestead USDA intaker.

Mirella Estrada is our Homestead Office Organizer.

Adam Fiallos, from Homestead, FL, has been working in nonprofit organizations since he was 18, where he started at a large statewide association in Tallahassee. 30 years later he has created a career in development working with nonprofits of all sizes.  He is proud to be working with FWAF and supporting our members.

Fellsmere Office Organizer

María Carmona is the Immokalee Office Organizer. She is Mexican, from the state of Tamaulipas. María Carmona has been working with the Farmworker Association of Florida since 2008, and her first job with FWAF was as an outreach educator with the program “Bebe te Amo” and in several research projects, such as “Los Girasoles” and “Salud Mental.” She loves her community and her job!

Maria Eugenia Martinez, I am from Mexico City. I came to Fellsmere in 2004 when two hurricanes, Charlie and Ivan, made landfall in the area. I worked in the parks clearing fallen trees after the hurricanes’ destruction. I also worked in the fields identifying canker and greening infections in palm trees and digging up ditches. In 2007 I became an alternate representative in the board of directors of the Association representing Fellsmere. In 2008 I started working for FWAF as a Community Health Worker with the Closing the Gap and Baby I Love You Projects. In 2010 I joined the ...

Jeannie has worked for over 20 years on issues of the environment, environmental justice, indigenous and immigrants’ rights, labor, peace, and social justice.  From 1996-2001, she worked for the Farmworker Association of Florida as the Lake Apopka Project Coordinator, addressing the issues of job loss, displacement, and health problems of the farmworkers who worked on the farmlands on Lake Apopka prior to the closing of the farms in 1998. From 2007 until the present, she has been the coordinator of the pesticide health and safety program of the organization, which includes annually training over 500 farmworkers in Florida on their ...

Yesica began volunteering with FWAF in 2005. She later became a member of the organization’s local Apopka leadership committee, then, served as a member of the FWAF Board of Directors. She later became a member of the staff, serving first as a receptionist and later as the Apopka Area Organizer. More than six months ago, she was promoted to the position of General Coordinator of the organization.

Computer Technician

Born to a Guatemalan father and a Salvadoran mother, Claudia’s family moved between El  Salvador, Mexico, and Guatemala as a child. In the US she has picked crops and worked in nurseries, locally in the Homestead area.  She also worked in some other jobs related to healthcare. In 2009 she began volunteering with FWAF and was hired full time shortly thereafter. She loves the work she is doing with FWAF and believes that the organization is doing important work as a strong team. Claudia is married and has a teenage son.  She is happy to share her secret to a ...

Administrator/ Program Support Manager Elvia was born in Mexico and was graduated from High School there. She came to the U.S. in 1985 to work in the fields. in 1987 she began working for FWAF, in the food stores. Several years later she transitioned to become the assistant to the General Coordinator, and in 2007, was promoted to the position of admisitrator. Also, in 2007, she successfully completed the Leadership Institute.