Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta is president and founder of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America with Cesar Chavez. Dolores Huerta is a labor leader and community organizer. She has worked for civil rights and social justice for over 50 years. In 1962 she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union. She served as vice-president and played a critical role in many of the union’s accomplishments for four decades. In 2002, she received the Puffin/Nation $100,000 prize for Creative Citizenship which she used to establish the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF). DHF is connecting groundbreaking community-based organizing to state and national movements to register and educate voters; advocate for education reform; bring about infrastructure improvements in low-income communities; advocate for greater equality for the LGBT community; and create strong leadership development. She has received numerous awards: among them The Eleanor Roosevelt Humans Rights Award from President Clinton in l998. In 2012 President Obama bestowed Dolores with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States

Inspiring communities to build volunteer-based organizations empowered to pursue social justice, ending apathy, get people involved in civic engagement, and improving educational outcomes by blocking the school to prison pipeline.

Your power is in your person! Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world!

Dancing - I used to win swing dance competitions in the 40’s and I can identify just about any jazz musician from the big band era by ear.