César Chávez Lecture Series

Sonia Nazario, 2022

Sonia Nazario is an award-winning journalist whose stories have tackled some of this country’s most intractable issues — hunger, drug addiction, immigration — and have won some of the most prestigious journalism and book awards, including two Pulitzer Prize awards. She was also a finalist for a third Pulitzer in Public Service.

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José Olivarez, 2019

The son of Mexican immigrants and the author of the book of poems, Citizen Illegal, José Olivarez, was a finalist for the prestigious PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. In 2018, he was awarded the first annual Author and Artist in Justice Award from the Phillips Brooks House Association.

José Galvez, 2018

Since the late 1960s, Tuscon, Arizona, native José Galvez has used black and white photography to document Latinx life and culture. A newspaper photographer for more than 20 years, Galvez was a member of a team of reporters and photographers at the Los Angeles Times who won a Pulitzer Prize in Community Service for a series on the Latino experience in Southern California.

Christine Chávez, 2017

Christine Chávez has a made a lifetime commitment to civil rights, the labor movement and community organizing. Christine works for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where she serves as the farmworker coordinator. Prior to that, she served as the United Farm Workers’ political director where she raised public awareness to protect the civil rights of farm workers and the larger immigrant community.

University of Missouri-Kansas city

Division of
Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity and Inclusion

Recent Lectures

Sonia Nazario, 2022

José Olivarez, 2019

José Galvez, 2018

Christine Chávez, 2017

University of Missouri-Kansas city

Division of Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity and Inclusion

César Chávez Lecture Series

Recent Lectures

Sonia Nazario, 2022

José Olivarez, 2019

José Galvez, 2018

Christine Chávez, 2017

Division of
Diversity and Inclusion