“Disruptions in Vermont’s Landscape,” a photograph I took that was part of my 2018 Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology third prize entry.

“Disruptions in Vermont’s Landscape,” a photograph I took that was part of my third-prize entry for the 2018 Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology

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The Vermont Cynic:
The Migrant Labor Behind Vermont’s Dairy Industry (February 27, 2026)
Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain, book by Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa Mares (my photo is featured on p. 44) (2025)
The Middlebury Campus:
Vermont Way Foods Signs Milk With Dignity Agreement (October 9, 2025)
Migrant Justice:
Photo-report: Vermont Way Foods joins Milk with Dignity! (October 6, 2025)
Agroecology Now: “Agroecology: A Labor of Love” (2024)
Civil Eats:
Civil Eats Investigation Series Wins a James Beard Award (June 6, 2023)
Civil Eats:
Our Best Food and Farm Labor Reporting of 2022 (December 29, 2022)
Civil Eats:
Absent Federal Oversight of Animal Agriculture Safety, States and Others Step Up for Change (November 18, 2022)
Civil Eats:
Injured and Invisible: Our Methodology (November 14, 2022)
Civil Eats:
Animal Agriculture Is Dangerous Work. The People Who Do It Have Few Protections (November 14, 2022)
Picturing Resistance: Art Intersection gallery (Gilbert, Arizona) (three selected photos for the exhibit curated by UC Berkeley Photojournalism Professor Ken Light: “Farmworkers say #MeToo on Park Ave,” “Freedom,” and “Take Off the Tape”) (October 2022)
Mother Jones:
Tomato Pickers Won Better Protections. Can Their Strategy Work for Poultry? (May 1, 2022)
Mashable:
The People Supplying Our Food Deserve More Than Thanks This Holiday Season (November 18, 2021)
Justice for Women:
The Humans Who Feed Us (my photo of Jose Luis is also in this video featured in Ms. Magazine) (November 2021)
Forbes:
Why Dairy Farmworkers Are Moving Beyond Fair Trade (June 16, 2021)
The Counter: For Magaly Licolli, Organizing Poultry Workers Starts with Learning Together (also published in Facing South) (June 8, 2021)
Forbes: Marita Canedo of Migrant Justice on Milk with Dignity and Supporting Farmworkers (May 10, 2021)
Seven Days: Federal Relief Could Fund Farmworker Housing Improvements, Advocates Say (April 21, 2021)
UC Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources: Rausser College 2020 Photo Contest Winners (Feb 18, 2021)
Milk with Dignity Standards Council: First Biennial Milk with Dignity Report (2018–2019)
Civil Eats: Millions of Dollars Heading to Farms, But Small Farms Won’t See Much of It (June 1, 2020)
Mainer News: The Milk of Human Cruelty (March 3, 2020)
Dartmouth College: Baker-Berry Library Exhibit (Summer 2019)
Berkeley Food Institute: Disruptions in Vermont's Landscape: Vera L. Chang on her Rachel Tanur Prize (July 11, 2018)
Research Matters: Behind the Lens – A Look Inside the Winning Entries to the 2018 Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology (May 17, 2018)
Social Science Research Council: Disruptions in Vermont's Landscape (Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology Third Place Winner) (2018)
Times Argus: Vermont Migrants Watch Nervously (December 10, 2016)
Chelsea Green: Farm to Table – The Essential Guide to Sustainable Food Systems for Students, Professionals, and Consumers (September 2016)
Dirt: Laying Roots in Foreign Soil: Refugees Thrive in Urban Agriculture Roles (April 13, 2016)
U.S. Department of Agriculture: First-ever Regional Farm to School Institute Underway in the Northeast (November 23, 2015)
The Official James Beard Foundation Blog: Working Together to Improve School Food with Shelburne Farms and JBF Boot Camp for Policy and Change (October 22, 2015)
Shelburne Farms: Holiday Catalog (2015)
New Farms for New Americans and UVM Extension: Global Food, Local Food: Guide to Growing, Harvesting and Preserving African and Asian Crops in the Northeast (2015)
Edible Manhattan: Shelburne Farms Is an Educational Farm Where You Can Vacation Like a Vanderbilt (August 31, 2014)
TIME Magazine: Best Place for Raising Healthy Kids – Burlington, Vermont (August 2014)
USDA, Team Nutrition, Vermont Agency of Education, VT FEED, School Nutrition Association of Vermont: New School Cuisine: Nutritious and Seasonal Recipes for School Cooks by School Cooks (2014)
Readers to Eaters: Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table (2013) (Booklist Top 10 Books on Sustainability for Youth, 2014 ALA Notable Children’s Book)
National Public Radio: How 17th Century Fraud Gave Rise to Bright Orange Cheese (November 7, 2013)
CNBC: Floating Farmers Market Route to Revive Historic Trade Route (October 4, 2013)
Crosscut: Seattle Chefs Take DIY Approach to Butchery (October 9, 2012)
Seattle Magazine: Tales from the Social Scene: A Lavish Evening with Mario Batali (November 8, 2011)
Grist: Startling New Report Shines Light on Farm Labor Conditions – and They Ain’t Good (April 2, 2011)
Bon Appetit Management Company: Taking Local Meat to the Next Level (September 20, 2011)