Guadalupe de la Cruz

Guadalupe De La Cruz serves as the youth and farmworker program director for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Florida program. She leads AFSC Florida’s mutual aid work by bringing food, cash assistance, COVID-19 testing, and personal protective equipment (PPE) to hundreds of farmworkers and their families in Homestead, Florida. She is also a tri-chair of the Florida Coordinating Committee for the Poor People’s Campaign. Guadalupe has been a tireless advocate and educator for immigrant families and farmworkers in Homestead, FL for the last 10 years, organizing as part of a worker-led movement for labor rights, higher wages, and better working conditions. Guadalupe has been instrumental in building an influential youth-led immigrant movement and winning local victories, such as shutting down the Homestead Detention Center for Immigrant Youth in 2019. She is a co-founder of Seeds of Resistance, which is a program that focuses on addressing the needs of immigrant youth by fully integrating art, ancestral knowledge, political education, agro-ecology, and trauma-healing work to the local immigrant justice movement.