César Chávez Leadership Conference
Edward James Olmos returns to inspire students for event’s 20th anniversary
Julie Cortez
El Hispanic News Writer
[ESP] Monmouth, OR ― The César E. Chávez Leadership Conference returned for its 20th year last Friday with a big name on the ticket: actor, producer, director, and community activist Edward James Olmos. But Olmos, who last attended the conference for its 10th anniversary, insisted that the real stars were the people who make the ever-growing event possible year after year.
Olmos said in his keynote address to approximately 1,350 students that Oregon’s leadership conference is one of the biggest he’s attended in his 40 years of delivering such speeches, and that the dedicated people who volunteer to make it happen “deserve an incredible amount of respect and a lot of love.”
