Trained as a bio-cultural anthropologist, Dr. Snipes uses a blend of ethnography and community-based risk assessment to successfully test the feasibility of collecting longitudinal bio-specimens among migrating groups of Mexican farmworkers. Her most recent study, entitled “The Migrant Farmworker Experience: An ‘Ethno-Occupational’ Health Assessment,” followed a community of migrant farmworkers as they travel from the Texas-Mexico border to find work. This research provides new, highly useful data on cultural notions associated with pesticide exposure, occupational illness, injury, and healthcare access among migrant farmworkers.