Exploring the intersections of activism and filmmaking, Founder and President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation Dolores Huerta will be in conversation with actress, producer, director, entrepreneur, and activist Eva Longoria in the Academy Museum’s David Geffen Theater on Friday, June 3 at 7pm.

Discussing how film can have an impact on social change, these two icons will explore themes found in the Impact/Reflection gallery of our Stories of Cinema exhibition, while also focusing on how communities can be empowered through authentic visibility and storytelling.

Inspired by this program is a same-day, separately ticketed screen-printing workshop for teens led by Self-Help Graphics on The Walt Disney Company Piazza, at 4:30 pm.

Enjoy music as well as delicious frutas, tamales, and aguas frescas available for purchase on The Walt Disney Company Piazza from 3pm to 7pm prior to the program.

Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta is a civil rights activist and community organizer. She has worked for labor rights and social justice for over fifty years. In 1962, she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union. She served as Vice President and played a critical role in many of the union’s accomplishments for four decades. In 2002,she received the Puffin/Nation $100,000 prize for Creative Citizenship which she used to establish the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF). DHF is connecting groundbreaking community-based organizing to state and national movements to register and educate voters; advocate for education reform; bring about infrastructure improvements in low-income communities; advocate for greater equality for the LGBT community; and create strong leadership development. She has received numerous awards: among them The Eleanor Roosevelt Humans Rights Award from President Clinton in 1998. In 2012, President Obama bestowed Huerta with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.

Eva Longoria
Recently named by People as one of the "Women Changing the World," Eva Longoria is a dedicated philanthropist, activist, director, producer, and actress who has consistently lent her voice to the issues she is passionate about, ranging from immigration to reproductive rights. For the last 15 years through her own production company, UnbeliEVAable Entertainment, Longoria has been producing projects that have purpose and are focused on elevating the stories of the Latinx and other underrepresented communities.

This program is generously supported by Gigi Pritzker Pucker and the Pritzker Foundation. And by Participant in support of programs that engage diverse audiences at the intersection of art and activism.