Dolores Huerta & Alice Waters Artist Talk (Live Stream)

This webcast event will be available at cityarts.net at 7:30PM on Friday, April 3 for free to the public. No tickets are necessary. If you would like to help support production costs for this web event, you may make a donation.

Alice Waters is a chef, author, food activist, and the founder and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California. She has promoted local sustainable agriculture for over four decades, and in 1995 she founded the Edible Schoolyard Project, which promotes free school lunches and sustainable food curriculum in public schools.  She is a leader in the slow food movement, and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama in 2015. Waters is the author of many books, including The Art of Simple Food I & II and The Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Idea, and most recently her memoir, Coming to My Senses. 

Co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association, Dolores Huerta is one of the most influential labor activists of the 20th century and a leader of the Chicano civil rights movement. She is the founder of the Agricultural Workers Association, and, along with César Chávez, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, the predecessor of the United Farm Workers’ Union, which Huerta served as vice president. Throughout the 1970s and ‘80s, Huerta worked as a lobbyist to improve workers’ legislative representation. During the 1990s and 2000s, she worked to elect more Latinos and women to political office and has championed women’s issues. The recipient of many honors, Huerta has received the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She is the founder and President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, for which she travels across the country engaging in campaigns and influencing legislation that supports equality and defends civil rights.

This event is a benefit for the Dolores Huerta Foundation & The Edible Schoolyard Project.