SAN ANTONIO - The Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) celebrated the lives and legacies of three Latino community leaders.On Saturday, MA
SAN ANTONIO - The Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund celebrated the lives and legacies of three Latino community leaders .
Andrew Hernandez, Community Development Manager at Methodist Health Care Ministries, has helped oversee the provision of health services to the working poor in 74 counties “Receiving this recognition from MALDEF means much to me,” Hernandez said. “For it has been one of my life's blessings to have worked alongside of and with MALDEF in the struggle for social justice and equality.”
She began her work as a community organizer for ACORN in 1979, eventually joining the United Farm Workers in 1989 and becoming the state director, and served as the executive director of LUPE from 2007 to 2022.
Latino Community Leaders Lifetime Achievement Social Justice Juanita Valdez Cox Cassandro El Exotico Health Services
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