Gloria Molina, a pioneering political leader who represented the people of Los Angeles, died from terminal cancer Sunday, her daughter said. She was 74.
May 15, 2023, 5:31 AM UTC
She was also noted as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee from the days of Bill Clinton’s presidency until 2004. It was a role that highlighted Molina as a featured speaker at multiple Democratic national conventions. “I used to hang around with all the Chicanos,” she said. “And none of them were talking of going to college at the time.”At college, including classes at East Los Angeles College, Molina sought out Latinas, and she found them through the Chicana Service Action Center, a nonprofit community group, and local influencers like Francisca Flores.
"One of our big goals was learning to become leaders," she said."Not to become followers to the white women's movement, and not to become followers to the Chicano movement. But to become leaders for ourselves, for other women. That was very important to us." “Every time I stepped up to one of these opportunities, the first thing that ran through me was fear, absolute fear,” she said of running for office. “And with that fear was the intimidation. ‘They’re smarter than I am. They know more.’”
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