Join us as we celebrate the life and legacy of César Chávez in 2025
Los Medanos College (LMC) is pleased to announce honorees of the 2025 César Chávez: Honoring a Legacy Awards Celebration. Reception begins at 6 p.m. and award ceremony at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 11 in the Student Union Conference Center, 2700 E. Leland Road.
This event celebrates the life of labor leader and human rights activist César Chávez and recognizes East Contra Costa County community members who follow his example of service, activism, and non-violent social change.
Values of César Chávez
- Service to Others: Empowering individuals by engendering self-determination, self-sufficiency and self-help, rather than charity.
- Sacrifice: Recognizing the obligation every individual has to contribute to their community, despite having to endure great hardship.
- Help the Most Needy: Supporting efforts to reach those in need, those dispossessed, and those most forgotten individuals.
- Determination: Instilling an attitude that through steadfast commitment, patience, and optimism, people can overcome great adversity.
- Non-violence: Achieving social and economic justice and equality through bold and courageous action.
- Tolerance: Promoting and supporting ethnic and cultural diversity as a means toward informing and strengthening communities.
- Respect for Life: Holding land, people, and all other forms of life in the highest regard.
- Celebrating Community: Sharing expressions of cultural identity through art, song and dance.
- Knowledge: Pursuing self-directed learning, the development of critical thinking, and constructive problem-solving.
- Innovation: Creating strategies and tactics to resolve problems and situations that often seem insurmountable.
Honorees of this year will include these three awards:
Concepcion James, chair of United Latino Voices of Contra Costa County, earned the César Chávez Award for Exemplary Community Service for her long-standing commitment to service and for demonstrating the core values modeled by César Chávez: Service to Others, Sacrifice, Help the Most Needy, Determination, Non-Violence, Acceptance of All People, Respect for Life and the Environment, Celebrating Community, Knowledge, and Innovation.
Rosa Armendáriz, interim dean of Equity & Inclusion at LMC, and Jessica Linares Boyle, Puente counselor at LMC, earned the East County Educator Award for demonstrating the qualities of César Chávez and a commitment to student success and equity, particularly for students of color and those from low-income families.
Teyoltlahui Gonzalez, a student leader from Pittsburg High School and Gabriel Perez-Cano, a student leader from LMC, earned the César Chávez Spirit Award in recognition of their efforts over the past year to affected change through advocacy and social justice.
About Los Medanos College (LMC): LMC is one of three colleges in the Contra Costa Community College District, serving the East Contra Costa County community. Established in 1974, LMC has earned federal designations as a Minority-Serving and Hispanic-Serving institution. It offers award-winning transfer and career-technical programs support services, and diverse academic opportunities in an inclusive learning environment. With exceptional educators, innovative curriculum, growing degree and certificate offerings, and state-of-the-art facilities, the college prepares students to succeed in their educational pursuits, in the workforce, and beyond. LMC’s Pittsburg Campus is located on 120 acres bordering Antioch, with an additional education center in Brentwood.