October 08, 2024 An essay by University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Department of Anthropology graduate student, Ariana Ávila, MPH was featured on SouthernCultures.org, a peer-reviewed quarterly published by UNC Press for the Center for the Study of the American South.
The essay, titled “How We Exist in the South: Voting for Justice in Southwest Florida,” is a web-only feature written in collaboration with Lupita Vazquez Reyes and Lisette Morales McCabe.
The focus of the essay is the Vazquez Reyes family’s history with farmworker advocacy and community organizing, and the importance of voting in the Southwest Florida city of Immokalee.
Read more here!