Magaly Licolli

Magaly Licolli co-founded Venceremos

About
Magaly Licolli was born in Guanajuato, Mexico. Her interest in labor led her to become involved with poultry processing workers in Arkansas. Throughout her work, Licolli has participated as Steering Council Member of HEAL Food Alliance, and Co-Chair at the National Steering Council of Interfaith Worker Justice. Her vision to ensure fundamental human rights of poultry workers led her to collaborate with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to expand the Worker-driven Social Responsibility model to the poultry industry. In 2019, Licolli co-founded Venceremos, a worker-based organization in Arkansas whose mission is to ensure the human rights of poultry workers.
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Agenda

Session 9
Oct
19
Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide: Unveiling our interdependence to transform our systems
Rural and urban communities feel worlds apart, yet are profoundly interdependent. From the farms to the corner store, the policing to the prisons, the water source to the tap, the systems we rely on cross the boundaries between rural and urban, especially our man-made boundaries of race, politics, and citizenship. But fear and misinformation have turned these boundaries into barriers, and divided we fall. Embracing our interdependence is crucial for the path towards equitable and sustainable systems of food, water, public safety, energy, public health, and much more. What can we learn from...