Creating Change Conference 2009
January 28–February 1
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Plenary Speakers
Kate Clinton
Kate Clinton, the LGBT movement’s funniest and smartest political commentator, hosts each of the plenary programs at Creating Change. Kate vlogs, blogs, and slogs through our political movement, and all the while, keeps us moving forward by keeping us laughing. Kate hosts the Creating Change plenary stage just days after a new Presidential Administration has taken office. No matter who is inaugurated, Kate will seize the moment with keen insights and hilarious observations. In addition to performing comedy, Kate writes her award-winning blog, CommuniKate, and posts at the Bilerico Project, the Huffington Post, Olivia Connect, and The Progressive.
Dolores Huerta: Still Building Grassroots Political Power!
Co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union and legendary social justice heroine and leader Dolores Huerta knows what it takes to build grassroots political power.
She co-founded the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) in 1962 with Cesar Chavez and, with Chavez, launched a movement to empower migrant farm workers and to improve their lives and the lives of their children. Ms. Huerta now serves as President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, dedicated to building the grassroots political power of farm workers, union members, and neighborhood activists. Through the Dolores Huerta Community Organizing Institute, the Foundation helps people to become leaders in their communities, to make real and concrete progress for individuals and for communities, and to change power dynamics in our society. A strong advocate and leading Latina voice for full equality for LGBT people, Ms. Huerta recently recorded a bi-lingual advertising message urging that California voters reject Proposition 8, the proposed amendment to that state’s Constitution that would strip away the freedom of same-sex couples to legally marry.Rea Carey, Executive Director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
An annual event at Creating Change, Rea Carey presents the State of the Movement Address, reviewing accomplishments of our movement and delivering an uncompromising call to action. Rea Carey has served on the Task Force staff since February 2004 as the deputy executive director and was appointed Executive Director in June 2008. She has worked extensively in HIV/AIDS prevention and in the LGBT community as one of the co-founders of Gay Men and Lesbians Opposing Violence and the founding executive director of the National Youth Advocacy Coalition. In 1999, the Advocate named Carey one of its “Best and Brightest” for individual contributions to the LGBT rights movement.
