Be a part of our Farm Employee Accommodation Experience Team!

Experience Team members attend three meetings over Zoom, each of which are 90 minutes long. Meetings are facilitated by our staff, who focus on creating a welcoming, respectful, and interactive environment. Before each team meeting, you’ll receive a reading assignment and reflection questions to prepare for discussion. During meetings, team members will have the opportunity to share questions about the material, get widely applicable answers, and engage in action-planning activities that support their individual goals.

Wednesdays from 1 PM – 2:30 PM CT on the following dates:

• February 12, 2025

• February 19, 2025

• February 26, 2025

We will provide each participant who successfully completes the program with an honorarium of $600 after the final meeting on February 26, 2025. To receive the honorarium, Farm Employee Accommodation Experience Team members will provide their payment information in our secure, online payment management system, Gusto. A social security number, TEIN, or EIN is required to receive payment so we can fulfill our tax obligations. Payment can be made via direct deposit or via paper check through the postal mail. Participants may forgo the payment if they wish.

We are looking for folks fitting the following criteria:

1. You are willing to share your stories and questions with us about legal issues related to the experience team topics in sessions that will be recorded and potentially incorporated into our educational material.

2. You are willing and able to join online group meetings using Zoom (including having the necessary hardware, software, and internet bandwidth), and you can access Google Drive, complete written responses in an online form, and communicate in English.

3. You have the ability to join all of the scheduled meetings on Wednesdays from 1 PM to 2:30 pm CT on the following dates: February 12, February 19, and February 26, 2025.

We anticipate receiving more applications than we have available spots. We apologize in advance if we are not able to accept all applicants!  In that event, we will extend invitations based on our priorities. We are prioritizing the following individuals for participation, in no particular order, and we strive to create a diverse Experience Team representative of a wide variety of operational types and personal experiences:

• Farm and Ranch supervisors and managers in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

• Black, Indigenous, and People of Color farm and ranch supervisors and managers.