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When President Biden announced on Tuesday that he would run for reelection, he said the effort would be helmed by Julie Chávez Rodriguez.
Chávez Rodriguez has served under two presidents and worked on Biden’s successful 2020 presidential campaign.
She is also the granddaughter of the late labor leader César Chávez, who advocated for the rights of farm workers and helped found the United Farm Workers union. Before entering politics, Chávez Rodriguez was the director of programs at the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation.
She told a group of George Washington University students last year that seeing that community organizing up close in her youth was a foundational experience.
«Growing up, it was valuable to see people fighting for those who didn’t have a voice,» Chávez Rodriguez said, «farmworkers who are the poorest and least educated and then to empower them, create an opportunity for them to step forward and negotiate with employers, with industries.
