Join GLIDE’s Center for Social Justice as we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Dolores Huerta

Thursday, September 26, 2024
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Glide Memorial Church Sanctuary
330 Ellis. St.
San Francisco, Ca. 94103 

Hispanic Heritage Month is a celebration of the achievements, peoples, and cultures of Hispanic people and Hispanic Americans. The month honors the contributions which Hispanic people have made to the United States. These contributions have been long-standing and vital to the success of the U.S. We also honor the rich history of Hispanic peoples during this month because their heritage and stories deserve recognition and time in the spotlight.

This year we are honored to have iconic American Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist Dolores Huerta as a featured speaker. Dolores will speak of the challenges, and achievements, of her path, and the contributions and future of the Latinx/immigrant communities.  A question-and-answer session lead by our Host Olga Talamante will follow.

Host: Latina Civil Rights Activist, Olga Talamante 

Olga Talamante is the Executive Director Emeritus of the Chicana Latina Foundation (CLF). She became the first Executive Director of CLF in January 2003 serving in that position until March of 2018.  She received her BA from UC Santa Cruz and Honorary Doctorate Degree from the University of San Francisco. She is widely respected for her community activism and leadership in the Chicana community, Latin American solidarity, LGBTQ, immigrant, and progressive political movements.  

She currently co-chairs the Caravan for the Children coalition advocating for the children separated at the border.   

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Guest Speaker: Dolores Huerta is Founder and President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation.  She co-founded the United Farm Works of America with Cesar Chavez.

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 $100,00 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 the 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.