{"id":406,"date":"2020-03-21T11:48:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T15:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/huertas\/?p=406"},"modified":"2020-03-21T11:48:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T15:48:41","slug":"new-intern-profile-perfil-de-nueva-becaria-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/huertas\/2020\/03\/21\/new-intern-profile-perfil-de-nueva-becaria-8\/","title":{"rendered":"New Intern Profile\/ Perfil de Nueva Becaria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meet Helaina!<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Helaina is a first-year food systems student at UVM and joins Huertas as our last field intern. Having grown up on a dairy farm in Upstate New York, Helaina brings a unique perspective and knowledge base to the team. Although she is still in her first-year of college, Helaina applied to Huertas after hearing about it in Dr. Dan Baker\u2019s \u201cWorld Food, Population & Development\u201d course and took her chances at applying. As reflected on by Helaina, \u201cunbenounced to me I\u2019m actually quite capable of being an intern.\u201d 
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Helaina has had a long interest in food systems and food justice. Having worked alongside migrant farmworkers at her own family\u2019s farm, she remembers that from a young age she had an interest in the migrant farmworker community and thought it would be really great to create a program that could help support them in their situations, especially seeing that sometimes these farmworkers worked for farmers who weren\u2019t always sympathetic. After coming to UVM, she was thus instantly happy to see the variety of organizations, including Huertas, who exist to do just what she had imagined. 
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Before coming to college, Helaina also had the chance to spend a gap year in Spain, which deepened her love of Spanish and allowed her to connect better to the migrant farmworkers she interacted with back home. As she said, \u201cEven though I was in a very privileged situation, I learned how hard it was to be away from your family, your culture, and your native language. Adapting to another culture is unimaginably difficult.\u201d Concerning how this experience affected her back home more directly, she also said that \u201cI think being able to have conversations now with farmworkers in their native language creates a sense of community because that\u2019s how I felt when people would speak English to me.\u201d
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Looking towards the rest of the semester, and especially the growing season ahead, Helaina is excited to use her skills and passion to learn and help others in her community. 
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\u00a1<\/em> Conoce a Helaina!<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Helaina es una estudiante de primer a\u00f1o que estudia los sistemas de alimentos en la Universidad de Vermont y se une de Huertas como nuestro becaria de campo final. Habiendo crecido en una granja lechera en el norte del estado de Nueva York, Helaina aporta al equipo una perspectiva y una base de conocimientos \u00fanicos. Aunque est\u00e1 todav\u00eda en su primer a\u00f1o de la universidad, Helaina se aplic\u00f3 para Huertas despu\u00e9s de o\u00edr de la organizaci\u00f3n en la clase del Dr. Dan Baker de \u201calimentaci\u00f3n mundial, poblaci\u00f3n y desarrollo\u201d y se arriesg\u00f3 aplicar. Como ella se refleja en, \u201csin llegar a m\u00ed, soy en realidad bastante capaz de ser una becaria.\u201d 
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Helaina ha tenido un largo inter\u00e9s en los sistemas de alimentos y la justicia alimentaria. Cuando era ni\u00f1a, ella trabaj\u00f3 en la granja de su familia y recuerda que desde muy joven ten\u00eda inter\u00e9s en la comunidad de trabajadores agr\u00edcolas migrantes y pens\u00f3 que ser\u00eda realmente genial crear un programa que pudiera ayudar a apoyarlos en sus situaciones, especialmente viendo que a veces estos trabajadores agr\u00edcolas trabajaban para los agricultores que no siempre eran comprensivos. Despu\u00e9s de llegar a UVM, por lo tanto, estaba feliz al instante al ver la variedad de organizaciones, incluyendo Huertas, que existen para hacer justo lo que hab\u00eda imaginado.
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Antes de venir a la universidad, Helaina tuvo la oportunidad de pasar un a\u00f1o en Espa\u00f1a. Esta experiencia profundiz\u00f3 su amor por el espa\u00f1ol y le permiti\u00f3 conectarse mejor con los trabajadores agr\u00edcolas migrantes con los que interactu\u00f3 en los Estados Unidos. Dice ella, \u201cAunque estaba en una situaci\u00f3n privilegiada, aprend\u00ed lo dif\u00edcil que era ser lejos de su familia, su cultura, y su idioma nativo. Adaptarse a otra cultura es inimaginablemente dif\u00edcil.\u201d En cuanto a c\u00f3mo esta experiencia afect\u00f3 a su hogar m\u00e1s directamente, tambi\u00e9n dijo que \u201cCreo que ser capaz de tener conversaciones ahora con trabajadores agr\u00edcolas en su idioma nativa crea un sentido de comunidad porque as\u00ed me sent\u00ed cuando la gente me hablaba ingl\u00e9s.\u201d 
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Mirando hacia el resto del semestre, y especialmente la temporada de siembra, Helaina est\u00e1 emocionada para usar sus habilidades y pasi\u00f3n para aprender y ayudar a la gente en su comunidad.
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Meet Helaina! Helaina is a first-year food systems student at UVM and joins Huertas as our last field intern. Having grown up on a dairy farm in Upstate New York, Helaina brings a unique perspective and knowledge base to the team. Although she is still in her first-year of college, Helaina applied to Huertas after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5934,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/huertas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/huertas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/huertas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/huertas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5934"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/huertas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/huertas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/huertas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/huertas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/huertas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/huertas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}