so, it's my great honor to present this year's cesar chavez labor award to the fierce, savvy, olga miranda. [applause] olga is the highest ranking latina in the san francisco labor movement a long time feminist, mother to her son jaoquin rubio, wife to hector rubio and her other titles include, sha fear, housekeeping, baby-sitter and loyal friend like all of us latinas here, right. [laughter] my goodness. olga was born in las vegas, nevada. is the first in her family to be born with union health insurance. she was raised by a single mother, maurice a marin da flores in los angeles, california. her mother worked as a union housekeeper in las vegas. her first organizing experience was with her mother, a long time los angeles community activist fighting for housing, education, equity, immigrant rights. attending here in city hall are picket lines at the los angeles unified school board was not an option in the miranda household, summer vacations with spent picketing at safeway and storefronts, boycotting with her mother and siblings and in high school, she led walkouts against the governor pe

i want to start with my friend, olga miranda. i love when olga dresses up, because when olga dresses up, it means we're going to have a good time. she's usually out there in the trenches, fighting for the women of local 87, and it's because of her we were able to keep people safe, cleaning the places of business, keeping people safe. this is a community that served san francisco during such terrible times, so we are honored to have you and your members here, olga. thank you for your work that you have done to be essential and present. when we talk about all this incredible work that the latino task force did to help distribute p.p.e., to help make sure that people were fed, to help get the resources to the kids who could not do work at home, who needed someone to help them, the latino task force was so instrumental to help this city work with the latino community, and mama bear was right there, helping them do it, so we're here to honor you, valerie. now, our third honoree, rita alvara, is not here, but we are honoring here becaus

i want to start with my friend, olga miranda. olga dresses up, because when olga dresses up, it means we're going to have a good time. she's usually out there in the trenches, fighting for the women of local 87, and it's because of her we were able to keep people safe, cleaning the places of business, keeping people safe. this is a community that served san francisco during such terrible times, so we are honored to have you and your members here, olga. thank you for your work that you have done to be essential and present. when we talk about all this incredible work that the latino task force did to help distribute p.p.e., to help make sure that people were fed, to help get the resources to the kids who could not do work at home, who needed someone to help them, the latino task force was so instrumental to help this city work with the latino community, and mama bear was right there, helping them do it, so we're here to honor you, valerie. now, our third honoree, rita alvara, is not here, but we are honoring here because consistent