MPBN, BDN cover narrative survey of migrant workers
Treva deMaynadier, who produced a narrative survey to raise awareness of migrant farmworkers during a Department of Labor internship administered by the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, was interviewed by the Bangor Daily News. MPBN also reported on the survey.
“I have lived in Maine my entire life, but this summer I quickly realized that so much of my home state is still unknown to me,” wrote deMaynadier, a student at Oberlin College, in the survey introduction. “When you grow up in Maine, you hear about the wild blueberries, the pine trees, and the lobster all the time, but what no one seems to know is that behind those iconic Maine products, there are groups of hardworking individuals who come from as far away as Florida, Texas, California, and Mexico to harvest and process these products for us.”