Social Impact Leader Spotlight: Juvenal Solano
Title:
Senior Community Organizer at Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project
Focus Area:
Central Coast, California
Causes:
Farmworker & Indigenous Migrant Rights
Community Work:
-Supporting, organizing and empowering the indigenous migrant communities in California’s Central Coast.
-To support, organize and empower the indigenous migrant communities in California’s Central Coast.
-Actively engaging the indigenous immigrant community to achieve just working and living conditions, equality, and full human rights in the broader community.
Fellowships & Awards:
-2021 Weingart Fellow: The John W. Mack Movement Building Fellows Program.
Community Involvement:
-Developed The Farmworker Resource Program within Ventura County’s Human Services Agency focuses on building trust and relationships with farmworkers.
- Host and organizer at Radio Indígena in California’s Ventura County
-Member of Ventura County Credit Union
-Worked harvesting strawberries for 8 years, in the last 4 years working in strawberries he began to get involved in defending his labor rights and that of his colleagues, that’s how he began to work as an organizer with the United Farm Workers (UFW) which he served for about 6 years where he also learned the method of organizing house meetings, a model that Cesar Chavez, co-founder of the UFW used in his day to organize farm workers in California.
-2014 he arrived as a community organizer with MICOP, in his first year with the organization he led the language access campaign in the Department of Motors and Vehicles (DMV) to ensure that our community that speaks Mixtec and other indigenous languages could take their driver’s knowledge exam in their own languages.
-By 2015 Juvenal was part of an 8-member committee to create the Farmworker Resource Program, unique in Ventura County.
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