Departures of note

Dolores Huerta was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) alongside César Chávez. She spent her life advocating for the rights of farmworkers and other marginalized workers, leading boycotts, strikes, and legislative campaigns that improved wages and working conditions for agricultural laborers. She helped organize the historic Delano grape strike and the national grape boycott of the 1960s and 1970s. Huerta also served as a lobbyist and negotiator, and coined the slogan “Sí, se puede” (“Yes, we can”). She received numerous honors, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, and continued her activism through the Dolores Huerta Foundation into her nineties.