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“I came to look for a better life,” said Librada Paz, a farmworker who moved to the U.S. from Mexico 15 years ago.

  • “I came to look for a better life,” said Librada Paz, a farmworker who moved to the U.S. from Mexico 15 years ago.
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  • A very enthusiastic person to work on many projects to help others in their personal development.
  • Like Zuniga, Librada Paz also began life in the US as a farmworker, but now works as a farm labor advocate for The Rural Migrant & Ministry.
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    Librada Paz

    Librada Paz is a Mexican-American activist for the rights of farmworkers.

    Paz grew up in San Juan Mixtepec, Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca, Mexico. At the age of 15, Paz and an older sister crossed the Arizona desert into the U.S. The pair then went to Ohio to join one of their brothers, who was picking tomatoes.

    Librada Paz. 2011.

    For a few years, Paz also worked as a migrant farmworker, during which time she reports being sexually abused on several occasions. Later she told her brothers she wished to attend school, and they agreed to financially support her so she could quit.

    She completed a degree in mechanical engineering technology from Rochester Institute of Technology and became a U.S. citizen in 1998.[1]

    Paz also became active in lobbying for farmworkers' rights in New York State.

    She later served on the council of the Rural Migrant Ministry, a nonsectarian group working to improve the lives of migrant workers.[2]

    In 2012, she won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Right