CPA to Honor Chavez-Thompson at Annual Awards Dinner, June 24

Labor leader Linda Chavez-Thompson will receive a Pathfinder Award at CPA’s Annual Dinner on June 24 in Washington, DC.

Chavez-Thompson, who was elected Executive Vice President of the AFL-CIO in 1995, has been a champion of all working families during her thirty years in the labor movement. A native Texan of Mexican descent, she is the first person of color ever elected to an executive office of the AFL-CIO and the highest ranking woman in the organized labor community. Over the years she rose through the labor ranks to the International Vice President of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union.

In 1995, President Clinton named her a member of the Advisory Board to the President’s Initiative on Race. She was elected National Vice-President of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement in 1986 and served in this role through 1996.

CPA Pathfinder Awards are given to individuals who have made a life’s work of finding viable solutions to difficult community problems. Other awardees this year will include Anne Wexler, Joseph Duffy and North Carolina state Representative Dan Blue.