Julie Chavez Rodriguez, granddaughter of a legendary labor leader, has specialized in behind-the-scenes roles. She will now lead the president’s reelection effort.
. Chavez Rodriguez, who worked on that trip, managed to find and send Helmy a photo that a White House photographer had captured of his two young sons meeting the president.
Those early organizing days would come in handy when she canvassed neighborhoods in Colorado for then-Sen. Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, bringing her to the attention of his advisers and ultimately to the White House. She went on to work for then-Sen. Kamala D. Harris and then Biden, earning a reputation as a wonk of sorts, someone who could quickly jump from issue to issue and make connections with the right people, according to a dozen colleagues interviewed for this article.
Yet Carson, the Obama official, said he found out about Chavez Rodriguez’s family’s legacy only six months after working with her. “It wasn’t even [she] who told me,” he said.In the Obama White House, Chavez Rodriguez’s job was to oversee Latino engagement, working with advocacy groups and ramping up education related to health care. But her reach expanded beyond Latino affairs as officials realized her ability to juggle tasks, her superiors said.
But Murphy said Chavez Rodriguez’s skills will translate well. “Somebody might have had a great history, for example, as the campaign manager in state X or statewide and have done a really good job, but they may not have played at the national level,” Murphy said. “She knows the players and she knows the issues.”
Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, met Chavez Rodriguez in the 1990s in the heart of strawberry country in the Central Valley of California, where farmworkers had organized a march for fair wages. Cesar Chavez had died a few years earlier, and his granddaughter had already earned the respect of organizing leaders, Henry said.
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