Exemplary Leader Celebration
2010 Exemplary Leader & John W. Gardner Award honorees
Lata Krishnan James C. (Jim) Morgan Hermelinda Sapien
Beginning in 1990, ALF has honored a select group of exceptional people from Silicon Valley and beyond at its Exemplary Leader Celebration. The Exemplary Leader Award is presented to a regional or national figure who models the boundary-crossing, collaborative leadership style that ALF promotes, and the John W. Gardner Leadership Awards to ALF Senior Fellows who demonstrate ALF core values of diversity, inclusiveness, civility, engagement, and respect.
On March 31, 2010, ALF honored James C. (Jim) Morgan, Chairman Emeritus, Applied Materials and Chairman, Morgan Family Foundation, as its 2010 Exemplary Leader and Senior Fellows Lata Krishnan, Class X, Vice Chair, Board of Directors, American India Foundation and Hermelinda Sapien, Class XVII, President and CEO, Center for Employment Training, as the 2010 John W. Gardner Leadership Award recipients.
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Previous Exemplary Leader Celebrations
On February 12, 2008, ALF honored Dolores Huerta with the Exemplary Leader Award at the Fourth Street Summit Center in downtown San Jose. Two ALF Senior Fellows were also honored with the John W. Gardner Leadership Award at this luncheon: Sharon Chatman, Class XIII and Robert Saldich, Class VIII.
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John W. Gardner Leadership Award honoree Judge Sharon Chatman, ALF CEO Ann Skeet, Exemplary Leader Dolores Huerta, John W. Gardner Leadership Award honoree Bob |
John W. Gardner Leadership Award honoree Judge Sharon Chatman with ALF Board of Directors Vice Chair Kathy Meier. |
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ALF Senior Fellow Gloria Duffy, President & CEO of The Commonwealth Club of California and John W. Gardner Leadership Award honoree Bob Saldich. |
Exemplary Leader Dolores Huerta and ALF Senior Fellow Kim Walesh, Assistant Director, Economic & Cultural Development City of San Jose. |
Dolores Huerta (left) worked with labor legend Cesar Chavez for 30 years, and together they revolutionized the working conditions of farm workers and migrant laborers in California and throughout the country.
Dolores Huerta is the recipient of the United States Presidential Eleanor D. Roosevelt Human Rights Award, the Nation/Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship, and is a former University of California Regent. At age 75, she works long hours as president of The Dolores Huerta Foundation, and also serves as Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO (UFW).
Sharon Chatman (left) is a superior court judge in Santa Clara County, and the founder of Building Peaceful Families, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that began as an ALF Cornerstone. She is the former San Jose State University women's basketball coach - the most winning women's basketball coach in Spartans' history. Sharon serves on the board of directors of ALF, the Ecumenical Hunger Program and Planned Parenthood Mar Monte.
Bob Saldich (right) is the retired president and CEO of Raychem Corporation, recently retired chair of the Board of Governors for The Commonwealth Club of California and former co-chair of the Outreach Advisory Board of the University of California. Bob has also served on the boards of ALF, the Silicon Valley Conference for Community and Justice, and is past chair of the American Electronics Association.
- Dolores Huerta's speech
- Dolores Huerta, in conversation with Senior Fellow Kim Walesh
- The Honorable Sharon Chatman's speech
- Bob Saldich's speech
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