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Camelia Chavez

Sep 21, 2026

30:53
and one giant leader who has helped shape american past present and dare i say future is dolores huerta who happens to also be your mom and she has organized and fought for workers and families she shaped workplace policy she has done so much she's inspired so many people including myself and Our first question is, how did seeing her leadership over all the years that you were growing up shape your own understanding of what is leadership and what does it mean to be a Latino leader? And how should we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month?
31:34
All right.
31:35
Well, yeah, in many ways, my mother was ahead of her time.
31:40
And it was because her own mother, my grandmother, Alicia, divorced her abusive husband in the 1940s.
31:47
So here you have a Mexican woman divorcing her abusive husband and moving from out of state from New Mexico to California with three small children.
31:58
She was a business owner.
32:00
She ran a restaurant and a small hotel.

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37:18
Sorry for 800 questions, which is, how can everybody help break down the barriers for Latina leaders to have their voices heard?

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