Part of the Women’s Campus Connection mission is to inspire personal and professional development of Stanislaus State women, but its Speaker Series may inspire the entire community when it features Dolores Huerta from noon-1 p.m. on Thursday, April 14 in the virtual program “Women, Labor and Climate/Environmental Justice.”
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Huerta, who first gained national attention when she, Cesar Chavez and fellow Stocktonian Larry Itliong formed the United Farm Workers in the early 1960s to champion better conditions for agriculture workers and staged the successful 1965 national grape boycott for that cause, has never stopped advocating.
The 2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient formed the Dolores Huerta Foundation in 2002 with the $100,000 prize money for the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. The foundation is dedicated to grassroots organizing and engaging and developing leaders.
At 92, Huerta continues to advocate at the state and national levels on behalf of her foundation, whose goal is to weave movements such as women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, labor rights, and civil rights into an individual thread.