Dolores Huerta will spend the evening March 16 with guests of the Oakland Public Library.
Huerta and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union in 1962, to stop the exploitation of farmworkers and provide them with a better life. Huerta served as vice president of the union.
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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.
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