In a modest office just off the main drag in Clinton, a small team of young professionals is quietly reshaping the lives of Sampson County’s agricultural workers. They call themselves Southeast Nonprofit Housing, but for many of the county’s farmworkers and their families, they’re simply known as the people who show up when no one else does.

The organization, which began in Alabama as a small housing nonprofit before expanding into Georgia and North Carolina, is now rooted in one of the state’s most agriculturally rich counties. Its mission: to improve living conditions and career opportunities for those who plant, pick, pack, process, or otherwise handle the food that fuels the region.

“It’s very personal for me,” said Jessica Sanchez, the program development coordinator who leads the N

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