SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Now in its 55th year, the University of Rhode Island Honors Colloquium will welcome Mily Treviño-Sauceda, a women’s farmworker advocate, for the eighth lecture in the fall series.
Treviño-Sauceda, vice president of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas Inc., will give a talk called “The Power of the Collective Transforms: Women Migrants Raise Their Voices and Take Action.”
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At 8 years old, Treviño-Sauceda, the third of 10 children, began working in the fields of Washington and California alongside her brothers and parents. She would continue the manual labor into her teenage years before organizing youth farmworker groups and eventually joining, and organizing, a union. She was a member of the United Farm Workers in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Treviño-Sauceda returned to school in 1991 and earned a bachelor’s degree in Chicano studies from California State Fullerton.
Since 2011, she has worked with Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, a national farmworker women’s alliance representing 15 farmworker organizations and groups, which she helped co-found. She sits on numerous state and national boards as well as advisory councils and task forces representing Latinas, the farmworker community and immigrant women – particularly on the subject of women’s health, violence against women, labor and women’s rights, education, and environmental and gender issues.
The Honors Colloquium talks are free and open to the public. The event will take place on Nov. 27 in Edwards Hall at 64 Upper College Road on the URI South Kingstown campus at 7 p.m.
Emily Gowdey-Backus is a staff writer for PBN. You can follow her on Twitter @FlashGowdey or contact her via email, gowdey-backus@pbn.com.
