Leticia Zavala

• Coordinator
• El Futuro Es Nuestro

Leticia Zavala was born in Zacapu, Michoacan. At the age of six, her family migrated to the United States and immediately started following the migrant stream from Florida to Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. In her teenage years, she became a member of the farmworker union, as her family was working on a union farm. With the support of a migrant education foundation, she obtained a scholarship that helped her pay her way to college, and she graduated with a bachelor’s degree with a major in Sociology from Florida Southern College. After college, she got a call to return to the fields as an organizer and she joined the ranks of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) once again. Since then, she has worked with immigrant communities in Mexico and North Carolina pushing to improve working and living conditions of agricultural workers. She has organized for worker rights on both sides of the border. In 2022, thirty farm workers joined together to fund El Futuro es Nuestro / It’s Our Future, A farmworker led nonprofit that is leading the way to improve working and living conditions for farmworkers in North Carolina. She now serves as one of the coordinators for El Futuro es Nuestro, fighting to improve working and living conditions for farmworkers in the South.