Kandace Vallejo

Kandace Vallejo is a youth educator and community organizer at Proyecto Defensa Laboral/Workers Defense Project, an immigrant worker’s rights organization in Austin, Texas. She currently sits on the board of Just Harvest USA, an organization that works to end human rights abuses faced by migrant farmworkers in the United States, and has been awarded a Kellogg Food and Community Fellowship for her work in the intersecting areas of immigrant rights, youth education and economic justice

Why I’m walking 200 miles with the Immokalee Workers

Coalition of Immokalee Workers protest on March 10, 2012. (Coalition of Immokalee Workers)

Though I live in Texas now, I am a Florida girl at heart. At age 3, I peed my pants in the checkout line at our neighborhood Publix.More

Kandace Vallejo

February 28, 2013

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Undocubus connects immigrants to civil rights legacy at DNC

Participants in the Undocubus demonstrate at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 4. By kk+, via Flickr.

The Undocubus, a busload of undocumented activists from Arizona, rode across the Deep South throughout the month of August to call attention to immigration policies that criminalize immigrants and separate families.More

Kandace Vallejo

September 6, 2012

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‘The war is not in Mexico — it’s here’

From the Caravan for Peace's visit to Austin, Texas. By Elizabeth Brossa, via Flickr.

“We must not wait for the government to come to us! If we wait, by the time they come they will be governing over a graveyard.” Mexican poet Javier Sicilia’s closed his speech with a call to action Saturday on the steps of the Texas Capitol building in Austin, as part of the Caravan for Peace rally.More

Kandace Vallejo

August 30, 2012

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