Bonita Villalobos Rivera

Bonita Villalobos Rivera began working with the farm worker movement in 1997. She currently serves as the operations manager for the UFW in the Central Coast region. Bonita Rivera hails from a large farm worker family and was raised in Woodlake, California. Her variety of roles within the UFW and other farm worker movement organizations over the last 20 years include serving as a paralegal winning major wage and hour and gender discrimination lawsuits; as chief deputy to the UFW secretary-treasurer she managed union-wide budgets; and as project manager for the construction and grand opening of the $1 million Central Coast Farm Workers Center in Salinas. Bonita was inspired to join the UFW after hearing Dolores Huerta speak at Humboldt State University, where Bonita graduated. Bonita takes great pride in helping empower farm workers so their voices are heard. She earned a law degree from Monterey College of Law. Bonita also sits on the board of the Migrant Farm Worker Health Center.