Distinguished Lecture Series with Dolores Huerta

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The Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice presents an evening with civil rights activist and community organizer Dolores Huerta. Huerta has worked for labor rights and social justice for over 50 years. In 1962, she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union, where she served as Vice President and played a critical role in many of the union’s accomplishments for four decades. In 2012 President Obama awarded Huerta the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Join us for a meet and greet after the main event.

This event is the latest installment of the Distinguished Lecture Series, hosted by the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego. Together with partners, the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice develops and champions evidence-based, justice-centered solutions to ending cycles of violence.

Check-in begins at 5:45 PM. Theater seating is general admission and available on a first-come, first-served basis. An overflow room will be available to watch the event livestream. Please factor in 15 minutes to walk or take the tram from the West Parking Structure to the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice.

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Dolores Huerta is president and Founder of the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF). She is a celebrated Latina labor leader, activist and community organizer.

In 2002, she received the Puffin/Nation $100,000 prize for Creative Citizenship which she used to establish the Dolores Huerta Foundation. DHF connects 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.

Dolores is a two-time US Presidential Award Recipient; she received the Medal of Freedom Award from President Obama in 2012, the highest civilian award in the United States, and the Eleanor D. Roosevelt Human Rights Award from President Clinton in 1998.

She has received many other awards including Mexico’s Order of the Aztec Eagle Award (the highest decoration awarded by the Mexican Government to foreign nationals), the James Smithson Award from the Smithsonian Institution, the Icons of the American Civil Rights Movement Award, bestowed to her in 2011 by the National Civil Rights Museum. Huerta is a U. S. Department of Labor Hall of Honor inductee, and she was the first Latina inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. She is a former UC Regent and has earned honorary doctorates from universities throughout the United States.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice | Peace and Justice Theatre, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, United States