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Dolores Huerta is a labor leader and community organizer. She has worked civil rights and social justice for over 50 years. In 1962 she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union. She served as vice-president and played a critical role in many of the union’s accomplishments. In 2002, she received the Puffin/Nation $100,000 prize for Creative Citizenship which she used to establish the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF). DHF is connecting groundbreaking community-based organizing to state and national movements to register and educate voters; advocate for education reform; bring about infrastructure improvements in low-income communities; advocate for greater equality for the LGBT community; and create strong leadership development. She has received numerous awards: among them The Eleanor Roosevelt Humans Rights Award from President Clinton in l998. In 2012 President Obama bestowed Dolores with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.

Nurture your little one's love of science! Preschool children and their parent or caregiver are invited to investigate nature and science through hands-on explorations, stories, and arts and crafts. Recommended for ages 2-5.

The Grajeda-Huckaby Low Barrier Housing Fund will support individuals in need of immediate housing assistance in a time of need associated with crisis intervention, substance abuse issues and rehabilitation mental health. There are many organizations and individuals doing great work around housing people in Southern New Mexico, but there is a lack of funds that serve immediate needs and are low barrier. Likewise, there is a lack of sober living facilities in Southern New Mexico that allow people to be on medication assisted treatment (buprenorphine, Suboxone, or methadone). Come learn how this new fund in Las Cruces was created and more about the housing needs in our community.

Nurture your little one's love of science! Preschool children and their parent or caregiver are invited to investigate nature and science through hands-on explorations, stories, and arts and crafts. Recommended for ages 2-5.

Professor Neri Torres of UTEP will provide a lecture on the art of Cuban dance.

The Museum of Nature & Science hosts Apache Point Observatory astronomer Dr. Russet McMillan and the APOLLO for a virtual presentation including a live firing of the laser from the 3.5m telescope (weather permitting). This will be a Zoom webinar at 4:30pm on Thursday, November 19. Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2Cke_Pp1QPqBoTseNxpqow For questions contact Stephanie at shawkins@las-cruces.org. APOLLO is an experiment using the Astrophysical Research Consortium 3.5m telescope, located in New Mexico and is led by Dr. Tom Murphy of University of California San Diego. The objective of APOLLO is to repeatedly measure the distance from Earth to the Moon to an accuracy of a millimeter, which gives us information not just about the Moon's orbit and orientation, but also tests Einstein's theory of General Relativity. This project relies on mirror arrays left on the surface of the moon by astronauts.

Nurture your little one's love of science! Preschool children and their parent or caregiver are invited to investigate nature and science through hands-on explorations, stories, nd arts and crafts. Recommended for ages 2-5.