“C2C”: Community to Community

C2C is a food justice organization that bases their beliefs “on the notion that society should arrange its relationships so that everyone has equitable access to the fundamental democratic processes affecting their everyday lives.” C2C strives to “develop projects that come from and are led by the folks from communities that need to affect change for improving the lives of their families and future generations.”
Rosalinda Guillen (she/hers) is the founder of Community to Community and a lead strategist and visionary with the non-hierarchical ecofeminist leadership of C2C. Her perspective is fundamentally influenced by her introduction to the multi-racial, working-class community organizing model of the Rainbow Coalition, the Cesar Chavez house meeting model, The World Social Forum, the Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil and growing up a farmworker in La Conner, WA. Rosalinda has organized farmworkers in WA State and the strawberry fields of Salinas, CA. She has represented farmworkers in the Legislatures of California and Washington States, and in ongoing policy and Movement guiding dialogues on immigration issues, climate change, labor rights, trade agreements, ecofeminism and strengthening the food sovereignty movement towards a Solidarity Economy.