Jaime Arredondo 

I came to Salem, Oregon at the age of eight from Las Ranas, Michoacan, Mexico in 1990. One of the first places I visited was PCUN, who helped me and my family get their "papers." I harvested crops for 12 years. In high school, I was hired as "beverage boy" at Willamette University, my first exposure to high education. I graduated from Willamette earning degrees in Rhetoric/Media Studies and Spanish. From 2005-2012, I worked with the Farmworker Housing Development Corporation as a Community Organizer and then as Director of Fund Development. In 2011, I was recognized by Shelterforce, the oldest community economic development magazine in the nation, and selected as one of 6 under 36 young leaders in the country.

Presently, I am the Secretary-Treasurer for PCUN, Oregon's farmworker union, in Woodburn, Oregon and the Director of Acción Política PCUNista (APP), Oregon's only Latinx 501c4. I also serve on Western Oregon University's Board of Trustees and Oregon's Youth Development Council. 

​Interesting fact: I make the best quesadillas.