FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE \u2013 March 25th, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Atlanta, GA) GALEO is proud to recognize the winners for the 14th Annual Cesar Chavez Ceremony. This year\u2019s event will be virtual. The winning essay entries will be recorded and released on Cesar Chavez Day, which is March 31st<\/sup>, and will be published on GALEO\u2019s social media pages (Facebook: facebook.com\/GALEO.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the virtual event, our Program Coordinator for Operations and Communications, Polo Vargas, will be our host. He will be joined by our three Spring 2021 interns Jennifer, Rodrigo, and Stefany, who will be presenters in the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additionally, our guest speaker will be Magdaleno Rose-Avila. Magdaleno is an activist who worked alongside Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta in the United Farm Workers (UFM) Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The purpose of the ceremony is to honor civil rights legend, Cesar Chavez, and increase awareness of the continual plight of farm workers and their contributions to America. Chavez\u2019s leadership was critical to organizing farm workers and founding what is today known as the United Farm Workers Union. He remains one of the foremost Latino leaders in American history. His birthday, March 31st, is officially recognized as a state holiday in California, Colorado, and Texas. GALEO supports the movement to create this date as a national holiday in honor of Mr. Chavez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are honored to announce the following winners of this years\u2019 contest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n High School<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st Place) Reilly O\u2019Neill<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2nd Place) Julia Powers<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3rd Place) Hayes Woley<\/p>\n\n\n\n High School ESOL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st Place) Nadia Safi<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2nd Place) Abel Worku<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adult<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st Place) Jesus Rubio<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2nd Place) Maria F. Vizcaino Garcia<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3rd Place) Adalina Capuli Merello<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you to the GALEO Leadership Council Cesar Chavez Committee co-lead by Rebecca Pool and Kyle Murphy, as well as the full Cesar Chavez Contest essay reviewers for all of their support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We also thank our prize sponsors for helping us reward our winners for this event. Adult and High School winners will be presented gift certificates (1st-$200; 2nd-$75; 3rd-$50).<\/p>\n\n\n\n ###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE \u2013 March 25th, 2021 (Atlanta, GA) GALEO is proud to recognize the winners for the 14th Annual Cesar Chavez Ceremony. This year\u2019s event will be virtual. The winning essay entries will be recorded and released on Cesar Chavez Day, which is March 31st, and will be published on GALEO\u2019s social media pages (Facebook: facebook.com\/GALEO.org) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categorizar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/galeo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17146,"href":"https:\/\/galeo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138\/revisions\/17146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}