Our Leadership

Dr. Natalie Cherot descended from Okinawan farmworkers who migrated to Hawaii. Her father’s people were enslaved West Africans who successfully fought their masters and established the Free City of New Bern, North Carolina years before the Emancipation Proclamation. Serving the farmworker community honors her ancestors and the freedoms they gave her. She has worked as a university professor, investigative journalist, and made history in Ventura County as she helped to overturn a wrongful conviction.