Dolores Huerta to speak at Kegley Institute of Ethics' Fall Lecture

Lecture among several KIE events being held throughout semester

Por California State University, Bakersfield

17 de August de 2022

Labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta will be the featured speaker for the Kegley Institute of Ethics’ 18th Annual Fall Lecture.

The event will be held on Nov. 3 at 6 p.m. in the Dore Theatre. Huerta will provide a presentation titled “Leadership and Activism: How to Overcome Apathy and Find Your Power.” The lecture is free and open to the public.

“We are honored to include Dolores Huerta as our featured speaker for fall 2022. She has been an inspiration for ethical leadership and social justice in our own community as well as across the world,” said KIE Director Dr. Michael Burroughs.

Huerta was born in New Mexico but grew up in the San Joaquin Valley. She, along with Cesar Chavez, co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, which eventually formed into the United Farm Workers of America in 1962.

As part of the UFW, Huerta and Chavez led a boycott of California table grapes in 1965 to pressure growers to sign contracts guaranteeing better wages and working conditions for farm workers. The industry signed a three-year collective bargaining agreement with the UFW in 1970.

Huerta is also the founder of the Dolores Huerta Foundation. Established in Bakersfield in 2003, the nonprofit organization works with local communities to establish volunteer organizations focused on pursuing social justice.

Huerta has earned numerous awards for her advocacy work, including the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award for a civilian in the United States.

The lecture is just one of the events that the Kegley Institute is hosting this fall. Another highlight is a zoom lecture on Oct. 20 at 6 p.m. from Dr. Mary Ziegler from the UC Davis School of Law.

Dr. Ziegler is a leading scholar on the law, history and politics of reproduction, health care and conservatism in the U.S. She will be discussing the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling overturning Roe v. Wade in her presentation titled “After Roe: Understanding Abortion and the Law in America.”

“KIE seeks to bring national thought leaders to our community to help foster productive dialogue and learning on complex topics,” Dr. Burroughs said. “The abortion debate has been and continues to be one of the most pressing ethical issues of our time, and Dr. Ziegler will undoubtedly be a great resource for all to understand this topic and the current political and ethical landscape.”

Here is the schedule of the rest of KIE’s fall events. They will kick off on Sept. 2 and run through Dec. 2.

Sept. 2: As part of the KIE Faculty Colloquia Series, 2022-23 KIE Faculty Fellow Lindsay Nelson-Burkert will provide a presentation titled “A Lack of Latinas in Law Enforcement: How Heroic Mindset Training May Offer a Solution” at 12 p.m. in Administration Building 101. This event is open to CSUB faculty and staff only.

Sept. 14: Ethics in Film screening of “White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch,” featuring a conversation with CSUB Alum Carla Barrientos, at 6 p.m. in the Dezember Reading Room. This screening is free and open to the public.

Sept. 14: Ethics Across the Curriculum workshop at 9 a.m. in Room 1108 of the Humanities Complex. This event is for CSUB faculty only.

Sept. 22: As part of the Kaiser Permanente Bioethics and Medical Humanities Speaker Series, Dr. Travis Rieder from the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics will provide a presentation called “Pain, Drugs, and America’s Problem with the Two” at 6 p.m. in the Dezember Reading Room of the Walter W. Stiern Library. This event is free and open to the public.

Sept. 23: Dr. Rieder will also provide a presentation titled “Catastrophe Ethics: How to Be Good When Everything is Bad” at 3 p.m. in the Humanities Office Building Room 1109. This event is free and open to the public.

Oct. 14: As part of the KIE Faculty Colloquia Series, Dr. Joseph Florez, Christina Contreras and Arianne Chow-Garcia will provide a presentation titled “Re-Centering Indigenous Knowledge through Community-Driven Research” at 12 p.m. in the Stockdale Room. This event is for CSUB faculty and staff only.

Dec. 2: Ethics Across the Curriculum Workshop, 1 p.m. in Humanities Office Building Room 1108. This workshop is for CSUB faculty only.

Links to all public Zoom events will be provided in advance of each event on the Kegley Institute of Ethics website as well as its social media pages.