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Equity on the Mall 2025 event held outside California State Capitol • Apr. 24, 2025, 9:11 AM ET (CBS)
OpenAI picks labor icon Dolores Huerta and other philanthropy advisers as it moves toward for-profit • Apr. 16, 2025, 3:47 PM ET (AP)

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Also Known As Dolores Fernández
Born April 10, 1930 (age 95) • New Mexico
Awards And Honors Presidential Medal of Freedom (2012) • National Women’s Hall of Fame (1993)

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