Eliza Kravitz

Eliza Kravitz

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Eliza Kravitz is an advocate and historian from Washington, DC. She is writing a book on the Bracero Program in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México that examines the experiences, narratives, and controversies around braceros who completed contracting in Monterrey before crossing the border in Texas and embarking on work contracts on farms in Texas and elsewhere in the U.S. This project, which emerged from her senior thesis at Yale University, also highlights the photojournalism of American photojournalist Leonard Nadel and interrogates his well-meaning yet misguided interpretations of the scenes he photographed at the Monterrey bracero contracting center. In addition to her scholarly work, Eliza has also worked for humanitarian and legal aid organizations on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border and served on the staff of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a farmworker human rights organization in southwest Florida.