Mónica Ramírez is an activist and civil rights attorney who has advocated for women, immigrants, and farmworkers. In 2003, she created the first legal project in the United States to address sexual harassment and gender discrimination against farmworkers. That program later became Esperanza: The Immigrant Women's Legal Initiative of the Southern Poverty Law Center and Ramírez served as its director for seven years. She would also create the award-winning Bandana Project, an art and activism program that raised awareness about workplace sexual violence. She has served as the Acting Deputy Director for Centro de los Derechos del Migrante and founded Justice for Migrant Women. Following a mass shooting in El Paso by a white nationalist and immigration raids in Mississippi in 2019, Ramírez joined with America Ferrera, Diane Guerrero, Eva Longoria, Alex Martinez Kondracke, and Olga Segura to publish the Querida Familia letter, an open letter urging the Latinx community to “demand dignity and justice.” She is the recipient of numerous awards including the YWCA USA Leadership Award, the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award for Social Progress, and the Harvard Kennedy School’s inaugural Gender Equity Changemaker Award. Her talk is titled "Seeding Change: How Farmworker Women are Leading the Fight to End Workplace Sexual Violence from the Fields to Hollywood." This event is sponsored by USM’s Sexual Assault Prevent Ambassadors (SAPA).