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Martha Guzman-Aceves

Martha Guzman-Aceves has nearly a decade of experience lobbying in Sacramento. Her current advocacy work has concentrated on environmental justice, occupational health and safety, and community health issues. Her recent regulatory and legislative victories in these fields include the enactment of both an emergency and permanent Heat Illness Prevention Standard through Cal OSHA and the Pesticide Drift Exposure Response Act, SB 391.

Since 2004, Martha has represented the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation (CRLAF) on legislative and regulatory issues related to farm worker health and safety, environmental justice and previously on education. In 2003, Martha served as the Legislative Coordinator for the United Farm Workers (UFW) AFL-CIO covering a range of labor and environmental issues. She worked for the UFW for five (5) years in both their political and research departments.

She is a board member of the Ag Innovations Network that strives to bring food and food production back to the core of people's lives; Pesticide Action Network North America, Sierra Institute and Community to Community Development. She was a gubernatorial appointed member to the California Water Commission.

Martha has a M.S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Davis and a Bachelor of Science in International Economics: Growth and Development and a certificate in Latin American Studies from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, complemented by her studies at La Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago de Chile, South America.