Commentaries by Joshua Villanueva | UC Law San Francisco

Streets were silenced, businesses shuttered, and daily life reduced to hurried, masked visits to the grocery store. Such scenes seemed unthinkable, yet they became a reality as governments worldwide scrambled to contain the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020. While Western democratic leaders at first placed faith in isolating known infections, many ultimately followed in the [...]

Hidden behind the United States’ largest produce supply is a crisis in farmworker housing, one that not only endangers workers but also poses a risk to consumers far beyond the fields. California grows more than a third of America’s vegetables and most of the country’s fruits and nuts. Thousands of farmworkers power this agricultural machine, [...]