Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project - FLAP

Proyecto de Ayuda para Trabajadores del Campo y Jardineros
Chicago and Evanston, IL

This is the 2024 fellowship description for this mentor organization. This position has been filled. 

The mission of the Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project (FLAP) - Proyecto de Ayuda para Trabajadores del Campo y Jardineros - is to improve working conditions and opportunities for low-income workers and their households in the cannery, farming, greenhouse, landscaping, meat, nursery, packinghouse, poultry, restaurants, and snow plowing industries.

The organization carries out its mission through advocacy, community outreach and education, litigation, community legal education, information and referrals, partnering with other organizations to fight human labor trafficking, preventing family separations by helping immigrants secure dual citizenship for their children and facilitating access to cash transfers to very low-income populations. FLAP provides these services free of charge and without regard to immigration status.

Assignments of the Peggy Browning Fellow will be supporting litigation 50% of the time, Advocacy 20% of the time and community outreach and education the other 30% building potential cases for litigation. FLAP staff is working in a hybrid mode, going to the office located in Evanston and/or Chicago to attend meetings. Working remotely during all the fellowships is an option we can discuss.

Duties will include:

  • Conduct legal research
  • Compose memoranda
  • Draft complaints and other pleadings, discovery, and settlement agreements
  • Investigate and analyze legal claims, gather facts from clients, answer clients' substantive and procedural questions
  • Compile databases
  • Maintain client files
  • Calculate damages
  • Doing Know your Rights presentations in person and/or online using Facebook Live and ZOOM and there is a possibility that few of them will be done at the Mexican Consulate offices in Chicago, churches and other non-profit organizations in Illinois.

For this position, Speaking spanish is not mandatory, but preference will be given to those who speak Spanish. Applicants must answer the following questions in their cover letter:  

  • When can you start and when will be your end date? You must be able to complete the full 10 weeks of the fellowship.
     
  • Will you have a second job?  If so, please explain. (We have to check any conflict of interest)
     
  • Do you speak Spanish?
     
  • What is your preference? Working remotely, in person or hybrid? Please explain.

The total ten-week stipend for this fellowship will be $7,000.

Address cover letter to:

Alexandra Sossa, Executive Director
Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project
33 N. LaSalle #900
Chicago, IL 60602
asossa@flapillinois.org

Additional information available at FLAP's website at:  http://www.flapillinois.org or visit all major social media channels @flapillinois

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For more information on FLAP Executive Director’s direct impact and work please visit: https://www.facebook.com/alexandra.sossa.3994

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