FIELD’S EPIC de Cesar Chavez 2023 Upcoming High School Graduations
FIELD is excited to join with close to 150 graduates across the state this June to celebrate them receiving their well-deserved high school diplomas. Ceremonies will be held at the following times and places: Wednesday, June 14 – IndioCeremony: 6…
FIELD Opens Helen Chavez Early Childhood Education Center in Tehachapi
By Christopher Blood FIELD unveiled its brand-new Helen Chavez Early Childhood Education Center in Tehachapi on Wednesday, April 26. The turnout was excellent and included FIELD leadership, Tehachapi ECE Center teachers and staff, parents and children, elected officials and Chamber…
Meet Vanessa Gutierrez: Director of Student Services for FIELD
By Kelly Hartog The Farmworkers Institute of Education and Leadership Development (FIELD) prides itself on its free WASC accredited charter high school program — the EPIC de Cesar Chavez High School, which allows adults to earn their high school diplomas. Over…
Meet Gustavo Olvera: Giving Back as FIELD’s Director of Workforce Development
Workforce Development Director talks about his job training program designed to give young adults a leg up As a police officer, Gustavo Olvera spent 20 years trying to put people behind bars. Now he does what he can to keep…
Meet Andres Lopez: Recycling Director Helps Channel Nex Gen’s Goals to Self Sufficiency
Recycling Director talks about FIELD’s program designed to improve the environment and the lives of young adults in underserved communities Seventeen years ago, all Andres Lopez knew about recycling was that he could return bottles for five cents a pop….
FIELD President and CEO David Villarino sits down with Jorge Contreras, Manager of Financing at NFF
Cesar’s goal when he founded FIELD was to inspire California’s rural workforce to gain self-sufficiency through employee-owned enterprises. “When we talk about self-sufficiency, what we’re really talking about is rural communities – immigrant communities – prospering both economically and socially,”…
FIELD Joins in Historic Partnership on Clean Water, Jobs and Economic Development for Desert Tribal, Farmworker Communities
On January 10, 2023 FIELD announced an historic agreement to form a joint venture with a federally-recognized Native American tribe and a private land owner that will generate water, jobs and economic development in tribal and farmworker communities in California….
FIELD Welcomes $8M in State Funding
Our President/CEO David Villarino-González and the FIELD staff was joined by local government, education and business leaders at our event at the newly acquired S Union Ave CTE Training Center where Assemblyman Rudy Salas presented a novelty check to FIELD’s…