Artist and multimedia journalist Wesaam Al-Badry will discuss his ongoing photographic project documenting the lives of essential workers and their families in California’s Central and Salinas Valleys. These areas represent the fertile heart of California agriculture, where farmworkers harvest over a third of of the vegetables and 40% of the fruit and nuts grown in the United States.
Al-Badry will be joined in conversation by Leydy Rangel, United Farm Workers Foundation, and Sandra Valdez, Farmworker.
Registration
Register here to attend in person, Bowl 016, Robertson Hall (for Princeton University students, faculty, and staff).
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Panelists
Wesaam Al-Badry (b. 1984, Nasiriyah, Iraq) is an investigative, multimedia journalist and interdisciplinary artist working with themes related to refugees, labor, migration, war, and technology. His approach to photography is informed by his own childhood experience as a refugee. Al-Badr