In remembrance of Dolores Huerta, Professor David Lopez convenes a conversation honoring her life and enduring legacy in the movements for labor rights, women’s equality, and Latino civil rights. Joining him are Irasema Coronado, director of ASU’s School of Transborder Studies; Jonathan Higuera, independent journalist and founder and host of the Impacto AZ podcast; Evelyn Rangel Medina, a Temple University law professor and visiting scholar at ASU Law this semester; Abdi Lopez, an ASU Law student and fellow with the Civil Rights, Migration, and Workplace Law Initiative; and Yomaira Tarual-Aranda, a third-year student at Rutgers Law School. Together, they explore Huerta’s commitment to dignity for low-wage workers and her influence across generations, sharing personal reflections on growing up in farmworker families and alongside United Farm Workers activism.

This podcast is for educational purposes only. The views expressed are those of the host and guests and do not reflect the views of Arizona State University or the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Nothing discussed should be considered legal advice or a substitute for professional counsel. All errors are the responsibility of the speaker.

Join David Lopez and special guest host Evelyn Rangel Medina as we are joined by Erika Andiola, the political director of the National Day Labor Coalition, discusses how Arizona's anti-immigrant politics, as a young student, whose family had fled Mexico for safety, catalyzed her into becoming a nationally recognized immigrant justice and DREAMer advocate and leader.

This podcast is for educational purposes only. The views expressed are those of the host and guests and do not reflect the views of Arizona State University or the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Nothing discussed should be considered legal advice or a substitute for professional counsel. All errors are the responsibility of the speaker.

In anticipation of the upcoming national interdisciplinary Derechos y Esperanza Low Wage Worker Conference, David is joined by guest co-host Evelyn Rangel-Medina, a Visiting Scholar at Arizona State University and Associate Professor at Temple University, David Seligman, Executive Director of Towards Justice in Denver, and Ruben Garcia,the Inaugural Leonard Hoshijo Endowed Chair in Labor Law at University of Hawaii, to explore how the law and emerging technologies such as AI, trap low-wage workers, often in poverty, subjecting them to the worst forms of exploitation but, at the same time, also may provide new paths overcome ongoing exploitation and allow a taste of the American Dream. A powerful conversation between litigators and scholars challenging silos and reimagining a more just workplace.

This podcast is for educational purposes only. The views expressed are those of the host and guests and do not reflect the views of Arizona State University or the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Nothing discussed should be considered legal advice or a substitute for professional counsel. All errors are the responsibility of the speaker.