Alexis Guild is the Vice President of Strategy and Programs at Farmworker Justice, a national farmworker advocacy organization based in Washington, DC. She has been at FJ since 2011. In her role, she coordinates FJ’s policy advocacy and programmatic work and is a member of the leadership team. She works with advocacy organizations, health centers, farmworker community-based organizations, and legal services organizations to improve the living and working conditions of farmworkers and their families in the U.S. Alexis co-authored “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Implementation and Impact of the Affordable Care Act in U.S. Farmworker Communities” published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (2016; and “The Neighbors Who Feed Us: Farmworkers and Government Policy – Challenges and Solutions” published in the Harvard Law and Policy Review (2018).

Alexis has extensive experience in public health, policy, and community organizing. She previously worked at grassroots organizations and served as a Health Education Volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps in Guatemala. She received a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Wellesley College.