The Effects of the Pandemic on Our Southern Indigenous Immigrants in Rural Humboldt

Brown Bag Lunch Online Presentation with Karen Villa, Researcher: The presenter will describe the lasting effects that the 2020 pandemic had on our Southern Indigenous immigrant population here in Humboldt County. As the pandemic of 2020 began, many immigrants were forced to take -- if not already in -- essential jobs that exposed them to COVID-19. This presentation will detail the mobilization of the community to support the government's lack of resources and funds directed to these immigrant essential workers.

Centro del Pueblo is an immigrants rights organization with a main focus of advocacy and empowerment of the southern Indigenous and Latinx immigrants in Humboldt County. It is a community organization that unites diverse members of the immigrant indigenous population in Humboldt, with strong historical, social, and cultural roots. Centro del Pueblo recognizes the value of Indigenous roots, and offers a space for the empowerment of the community with practices of political and cultural self-determination.

Karen Villa is a Humboldt State University graduate with a master's in academic research in psychology. Shewas born in San Diego and is a daughter of Mexican immigrants. In her education and work she has been especially interested in working within her own community (Southern Indigenous/Latinx) in the fields of education, immigrants rights, food sovereignty, and gendered violence.

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