LOS ANGELES–Hillary for California announced that Dolores Huerta, co-founder of United Farm Workers, and Eliseo Medina, Secretary-Treasurer of SEIU, will join the campaign team as senior advisors.
Huerta and Medina will build on the campaign’s outreach to the Latino community in California, and work with the campaign’s senior team to organize and engage Californians in conversations about Hillary Clinton’s plans to break down barriers and help move the country forward. Gabriel Rodriguez, an immigration reform advocate with Hillary for California, will join the outreach team. Rodriguez has been with the campaign since February, and has served in similar roles in Colorado, Illinois, Arizona, New York, and Connecticut.
“We are thrilled to be joined by two incredibly accomplished and admired leaders in the Latino, immigrant and labor communities, Dolores Huerta and Eliseo Medina,” said Buffy Wicks, State Director for Hillary for California. “Their advocacy and leadership, along with Gabriel Rodriguez’s focus on Latino GOTV, will go a long way in continuing the important work of reaching every California voter in advance of the June 7 primary.”
Huerta made history leading the 1965 grape boycott to achieve better working conditions for predominantly Latino, immigrant farmworkers. She is recognized internationally in the labor, women’s rights, and immigrants’ rights movements.
