Farmworker Heroes Appreciation Event

We are excited to announce our special guest who will be making an appearance at the Farmworker Heroes Exhibit at Expo Hall – Dolores Huerta the President and Founder of the Dolores Huerta Foundation

Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta is a civil rights activist and community organizer. She has worked for labor 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 1998. In 2012 President Obama bestowed Dolores with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.

Dolores Huerta

Farmworker Heroes of the Year

Jose Plancarte Orozco
J. Consuelo Estrada
J. Consuelo Estrada
David Herrera
David Herrera
Martin Acosta (right) &
Jose Vadajos (left)
Felix Torres
Felix Torres
dolores huelga
Yepes Mural of A Song For Cesar
Singing at strike
Fair Schedule 6/11