I know how it affects our everyday life." I understand that they don't speak the language. "I understand what workers are going through," she said. She has never worked in the fields, but she said her background helps her connect with the nation's farmworkers. She managed a construction company and a law firm that helped workers with immigration and workers compensation claims before joining the farmworker union nine years ago. in the early 1980s, she only spoke Spanish. Romero was born in Mexico City and grew up in Guadalajara.
Twenty-five years later, he is stepping down and board member Teresa Romero is becoming the union's third president and the first immigrant woman to lead a national union in the United States. Arturo Rodríguez became president of the United Farm Workers after his father-in-law, farmworker leader César Chávez, died unexpectedly in 1993.
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