The Center for Leadership and Values at California Lutheran University will host Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers, as part of the Distinguished Speakers Series.

Huerta will discuss the "Human Side of the Immigration Policy Debate" at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, in CLU's Samuelson Chapel.

Admission is free and open to the public.

Huerta has spent more than five decades working with community service agencies and has been instrumental in legislation focusing on the rights of Hispanic immigrants in the United States.

As a cofounder of the National Farm Workers Association with Cesar Chavez, she lobbied for better pay and work conditions.

She has served as an instructor at University of Southern California, teaching courses on community organization. In 2002, she began the Dolores Huerta Foundation, which provides programs focusing on community organizing and leadership training in lowincome regions. She is also a member of the Feminist Majority Foundation.

For more information, visit http://www.venturaprofile.org or http://www.callutheran.edu.