Executive director of the Durham, North Carolina-based Student Action with Farmworkers, Melinda Wiggins grew up in the Mississippi Delta. Melinda attend Millsaps College and later Duke Divinity School, where she explored different types of advocacy work before turning to farmworker rights. In this interview, Melinda reflects upon her own development as an activist, as well as the specifics of farmworker advocacy work in North Carolina and the South. -- Description adapted from interview abstract (see transcript, available under 'Documents' menu above).
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