Acrylic on concrete, 7 ft. x 38 ft., 2025
Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL
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Geraldean Matthew was a farmworker at Lake Apopka. After the farms in the area were shut down, she began advocating for medical study of the effects of agricultural pollution and pesticide exposure on workers and the community, working with Linda Lee. She had a number of chronic health problems and passed in 2016 at age 66. Jeannie Economos with Florida Farmworkers Association continues her work.
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Greg Schell is a Florida-based attorney who has spent his career protecting the rights of Florida’s migrant farmworkers. He has served as the managing attorney for Florida Legal Services’ Migrant Farmworker Justice Project, where he filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of bean pickers to recoup stolen wages.
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