policy Archives - Alisha Camacho

Maryland’s landmark heat stress standard risks leaving farmworkers behind as temperatures and political tensions rise

May 16, 2025

Two farmworkers, on the left, prepare to load watermelons from a tractor, on the right, into the warehouse through a window opening in the building. The photo contains dark shadows to help conceal the farmworkers’ identities.

I co-authored this piece in Dialogue & Discourse to share RESPIRAR project findings on how Maryland’s heat stress policy may leave migrant farmworkers at risk.