ADVISORY BOARD

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Dr. Ted Lucas was born in San Diego and grew up in El Cajon and Chula Vista, where almost all his school friends were children of immigrant parents or grandparents. During the summers, Ted lived with his grandparents at their farm in Lakeside, where he helped to harvest the crops they grew and gathered chicken eggs in the mornings. 

They had been itinerant pickers in the 1920s, and moved up and down the West Coast to find work, most often in Oregon, where they picked hops in the late summer with their children, including Ted’s mother. 

Ted joined his wife in the efforts to help farm workers who had lost their home at the 2013 Oxnard fire. Co-founding Friends of Fieldworkers with his wife and helping the farm-working families of Ventura County has been the most rewarding work of his career.