Why Dolores Huerta Is Hopeful About the Fight for a Feminist Future: ‘We’re Going to Be Able to Overcome’

Dolores Huerta has spent 70 years at the frontlines of the intertwined fights for economic justice and women’s rights.

In 1955, Huerta founded the Stockton, Calif., chapter of the Community Service Organization, which organized for economic justice within the Latinx community. In 1962, Huerta and Cesar Chávez founded the National Farm Workers Association, now known as the United Farm Workers’ Union, and she continued to serve as vice president of the organization for over 35 years, winning groundbreaking victories for farmworkers.

In 1987, Huerta became a founding board member of the Feminist Majority Foundation, which now publishes Ms. In 2003, Huerta founded the Dolores Huerta Foundation, which cultivates grassroots movements nationally, and she still serves as its president.

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