BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Virginia Villegas, Esq., Chair
Villegas/Carrera, LLP
Christine Brigagliano, Esq., Vice-Chair
Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale, LLP
Rosario Vasquez, Treasurer
Community Organizer
Ruben Chavez, JD
Golden Valley Health Centers
Manuel Magaña
Farm Worker (Retired)
Richard M. Pearl, Esq.
Law Offices of Richard M. Pearl
Jessica Stender, Esq.
Equal Rights Advocates
Peder J. V. Thoreen, Esq.
Altshuler Berzon, LLP
Jose Olivera
Silvia Garcia, Esq.
In Memoriam (1968-2012)
CRLA Foundation’s dedicated staff provides essential and crucial services to farmworkers and their families, who have been especially hard hit during the COVID-29 pandemic. Farmworkers risk their lives everyday to put food on our tables by working in hazardous conditions, including pesticide exposure, heat stress, lack of shade, and often lacking clean drinking water. Further, despite being such essential workers, farmworkers are paid low wages, lack health insurance, and even lack access to preventive care.
-Virginia Villegas, Board Chair
Working with farmworker communities is important, because for me, these people are my abuelos, padres, tios, tias, primos and primas. They are familia and you always take care of familia.
-Ruben Chavez, Board Member