Mary Jo Dudley is the Director of Migrant Advocacy and Support (MAS) and Chair of the National Advisory Council on Migrant Health, a 15-member body that advises the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration on improving the health and well-being of farmworkers and their families.
She is also the former Director of the Cornell Farmworker Program, where she spent more than 20 years working to improve farmworkers’ living and working conditions. Centering farmworker perspectives, she helped develop accessible educational materials—primarily workshops and short animated videos—addressing health, workplace safety and well-being, cultural concerns, and immigration issues.
Working directly with farmworkers, Dudley co-created Spanish-language skits, role-plays, and videos that explain legal rights and how to respond during encounters with law enforcement. Through bilingual workshops, she assisted hundreds of families in preparing power-of-attorney and temporary guardianship documents so children could be cared for if parents were detained. She has also supported hundreds of families in completing parental permission-to-travel forms, enabling parents or designated adults to transport minors across international borders.
Her work has received national recognition. In 2019, she received both the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award (Regional) and the C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award, a national honor for engaged scholarship. In 2012, she was named a White House Champion of Change and received the César Chávez Legacy Award from President Obama.
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| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8354-602X |
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Migrant Advocacy and Support (MAS)
Non-governmental Organisation, Ithaca, NY, United States
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