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About me
Leticia Zavala was born in Zacapu, Michoacan in 1979. At the age of six, her family migrated to the United States and immediately started following the migrant stream from Florida to Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. In her teenage years, she became a member of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, FLOC, as her family was working on a union farm. With the support of a migrant education foundation, she obtained a scholarship that helped her pay her way to college, and she graduated with a bachelor’s degree with a major in Sociology from Florida Southern College. After college, she got a call to return to the fields as an organizer and she joined the ranks of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) once again. Since then, she has worked with immigrant communities in Mexico and North Carolina pushing to improve working and living conditions of agricultural workers. She is a member of Colectivo Binacional de Mujeres Migrantes, and part of the immigrant advisory council for the city of Zacapu, Michoacan. In 2017, Leticia was elected to serve on the executive board of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, and she led FLOC’s organizing efforts in North Carolina for many years. In 2022, she joined an effort of FLOC members to take back the union for rank-and-file workers, and Leticia ran in the first contested election of the Farm labor Organizing Committee. Days after the election, Leticia was fired. Thirty farm workers joined together to found El Futuro es Nuestro / It’s Our Future, A farmworker led nonprofit that is leading the way to improve working and living conditions for farmworkers in North Carolina.
