Archive | July, 2012

Farmworker Organizer Dies But Her Work Lives On

By on July 11, 2012 in Academia, Labor, Unions

Joan Papert Preiss,  1925-2012 In the fall of 1987, I was taking a Duke Public Policy leadership class and called Joan Preiss to ask her if I could do a student internship with the Triangle Friends of the United Farmworkers (TFUFW) as part of my coursework. I had just finished a life-changing summer internship in Belle Glade, […]

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