Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project - FLAP

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

This is the 2025 fellowship description for this mentor organization. 

The mission of the Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project (FLAP) - Proyecto de Ayuda para Trabajadores del Campo y Jardineros - FLAP's mission is to improve working conditions and opportunities, free of charge and without regard to immigration status, for low-wage workers and their households in the cannery, farming, greenhouse, landscaping, meat, nursery, packinghouse, poultry, restaurants, and snow plowing industries through advocacy, community outreach and education, community legal education, information and referrals, fighting human labor trafficking, legal services, preventing family separations by helping immigrants secure dual citizenship for their children and facilitating access to technology and cash transfers. FLAP does not receive funding from the Federal Legal Services Corporation.

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 Latine Consulates 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, Chief Executive Officer
Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project
200 N. LaSalle #2500
Chicago, IL 60602

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

To sign up for FLAP’s Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gJwhRn
To see FLAP’s work in action and receive daily organizational updates, connect with FLAP on social media:
Facebook bilingual page: https://www.facebook.com/farmworkerlandscaper.advocacyproject
Facebook in Spanish, for workers: https://www.facebook.com/landscaper.flap/
For more information on the direct impact of FLAP’s Chief Executive Officer’s work, please visit: facebook.com/alexandra.sossa.3994
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FLAPIllinois
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flapillinois/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJAzURFw-j8tXJAy6PbEnBg
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/farmworker-and-landscaper-advocacy-project
Triller: https://triller.co/@flapillinois
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@flapillinois?lang=en

Below you will find FLAP's social media handles.

Facebook @Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project
@Flap Para Los Trabajadores

Instagram
@flapillinois

X
@FLAPIllinois

LinkedIn
@FarmworkerandLandscaperAdvocacyProject

TikTok
@flapillinois

YouTube
@ farmworkerandlandscaperadv7262

Triller
@flapillinois