Erica Diaz-Cervantes

Robert J. Lopez, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, joins Erica Diaz-Cervantes, a former child farmworker and advocate, to discuss the harsh realities faced by California’s child farmworkers. They reveal alarming details about minimal enforcement of labor laws, unsafe conditions, and inadequate wages as children as young as 12 pick crops. Lopez shares his findings from interviews with young workers detailing fears of retaliation, while Diaz-Cervantes recounts her own grueling experiences. Together, they highlight urgent calls for better protections and legislative action.