For @prismreports.org, @us.theguardian.com & @enlacelatinonc.bsky.social, our fellowship coordinator, @tinavasquez.bsky.social, investigated Florida Orange Gold’s disregard for the health of their migrant farmworkers in North Carolina and Florida. Read the story at tinyurl.om/farmworkersheat.

After a farmworker died & another became disabled after a heat stroke, their employer keeps sending workers on H-2A visas out to the blistering North Carolina fields.

Our co-published investigation by @tinavasquez.bsky.social is up now in @theguardian.com, with photos by Kaoly Gutierrez.

I also LOVE how @pressonsouth.bsky.social's Freedomways fellows approached audience engagement in deeply creative ways. For example, Eden created a zine about Black birth workers in the South. She's also hosting a community panel with birth workers who appeared in her story. We truly love to see it.

And for her newsroom the @nashvillebanner.bsky.social, the brilliant Eden Turner reported this deeply important story about Black birth workers in the South:

From Louisiana, Edith Romero Velasquez reported this story, published on Monday by @prismreports.org, about the treatment of pregnant people in ICE custody. In her story, Edith also dives into how U.S. immigration law was shaped by eugenics.

Updating this thread to share more brilliant reporting from movement journalists in the South who were a part of @pressonsouth.bsky.social's Freedomways Reporting Fellowship!

On Sept. 29, @prismreports.org published my story about Carlos Vargas Moreno, an H-2A worker with a company called Florida Orange Gold who in 2022 experienced a heat stroke that left him disabled. Two years prior, another Florida Orange Gold H-2A worker died from heat stroke.

Florida Orange Gold is one of hundreds of middlemen contracted by U.S. growers & crop farmers to hire & oversee migrant farmworkers.

Even after the 2020 death of a farmworker they employed, Florida Orange Gold continues to expose H-2A workers to heat stress, @tinavasquez.bsky.social reports.

I keep coming back to this amazing feature by @tinavasquez.bsky.social for @prismreports.org. Fantastic reporting on heat illness in farmworkers, which is only getting worse.

Our co-founder @tinavasquez.bsky.social is an excellent reporter. ALWAYS read Tina:

Incredible reporting by @tinavasquez.bsky.social here. A story about how the people who put food on American tables are denied water or even the ability to carry it with them or meaningfully ask for it to be provided, lest they lose their jobs working in oppressive heat.

“Almost nowhere inside this system is an expressed desire to do better, to improve working conditions, to create a heat standard.”

Despite farmworker death & another disabled by heat stroke, their employer keeps sending people to blistering fields, @tinavasquez.bsky.social investigates.