During one of her trips to California, Chicana artist Ester Hernández introduced Iturbide to the renowned farmworkers’ leaders and civil rights advocates César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, founders of the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta played a pivotal role in organizing farmworkers and shaping the Chicano movement’s vision of justice and dignity. Iturbide’s portraits resonate with the broader collective impulse that defined the Chicano struggle—a movement through which Mexican Americans reclaimed their history, culture, and identity. Figures like Huerta, Chávez, and community leaders in San Francisco’s Mission District embodied this transformation. The once-pejorative term “Chicano” evolved into a symbol of cultural pride and resistance, celebrated through art, music, and activism. Alfonso Morales Carrillo, “White Fence Revisited,” in Graciela Iturbide: White Fence, ed. Graciela Iturbide (Barcelona: RM, 2024), p. 12.