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You and two guests will enjoy a inspirational evening and a very unique experience!

The Dolores Huerta Foundation and nationally-acclaimed Biba Restaurant are teaming up to give you and two friends the rare opportunity to have a small, intimate dinner with world-renowned community leader, activist and organizer Dolores Huerta. In this one-of-a-kind experience, you’ll meet who Mills College has lauded “a lifetime champion of social justice whose courageous leadership garnered unprecedented national support from farmworkers, women and underserved communities in a landmark quest for human and civil rights.” At Biba Restaurant, see for yourself why the California Travel Industry named Chef Biba Caggiano Chef of the Year in 1999. Experience the luxurious seasonal menu that inspired Gourmet Magazine to write, “San Franciscans and Angelenos would consider themselves lucky to have an Italian restaurant as authentically Italian as Biba.”

You'll also take home two autographed copies of Biba's latest cookbook Spaghetti Sauces.

About Dolores Huerta

Dolores was an inaugural recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights from President Bill Clinton in 1998. That same year, Ladies Home Journal recognized her as one of the 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century, along with such women leaders as Mother Teresa, Margaret Thatcher, Rosa Parks, and Indira Gandhi. Dolores has received several additional awards in recognition of her numerous achievements, including the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship in 2002, the UCLA Medal (UCLA’s highest individual honor) in 2009 and honorary degrees from Mills College and Princeton University. She was lauded in the Princeton ceremony with: “Through her insatiable hunger of justice—La Causa—and her tireless advocacy, she has devoted her life to creative, compassionate and committed citizenship.

About the Dolores Huerta Foundation

Dolores Huerta founded the Dolores Huerta Foundation in 2002 with the mission “to create a network of organized communities pursuing social justice through systematic and structural transformation.”

The DHF has implemented its organizing model in seven communities in California’s Central Valley. In these communities, full-time trained organizers form neighborhood organizations called Vecinos Unidos (United Neighbors). The Vecinos are trained to collectively engage public officials and navigate the system for the benefit of their communities. The Vecinos have accomplished very much in four strategic priority areas: civic engagement, health & environment, education & youth development and economic development.

For more information on Dolores Huerta and the Dolores Huerta Foundation, please visit www.doloreshuerta.org.

About Biba Restaurant

You may know Chef Biba Caggiano from the internationally-syndicated cooking show “Biba’s Italian Kitchen” on the Discovery Channel and TLC. In addition to authoring nine best-selling cookbooks, she received the prestigious Robert Mondavi Culinary Award of Excellence in 1998 and was named Chef of the Year by the Governor of California and the California Travel Industry in 1999.

In 1986 Biba opened Biba Restaurant, which has received national accolades, including glowing reviews from Gourmet Magazine, Travel and Leisure, Conde Nast Travelers and the Wine Spectator. It has been named as Best Restaurant in Sacramento by the Sacramento Bee’s Food and Wine Editor and voted “Best of the Best” by Sacramento Magazine readers for the past several years. In 2011, Biba Restaurant was featured on KVIE’s Rob on the Road as KVIE Members’ favorite Northern California restaurant.
Biba offers a complete menu that changes seasonally (four times a year). The menu includes a variety of appetizers, first courses (pastas & gnocchi), entrées, salads, and desserts. Entrée selections include fresh seafood, chicken, steaks, lamb, veal, duck, etc.

Biba Restaurant is located at 2801 Capitol Avenue in Sacramento.

For more information on Biba Restaurant, please visit www.biba-restaurant.com.

Item Special Note

Dinner to be scheduled within one year of auction closing date; date and time to be determined based on Ms. Huerta’s and Biba Restaurant’s availability. KVIE will contact the winning bidder to make arrangements.

Dinner includes one (1) glass of sparkling wine per age appropriate guests (if under age 21, a substitute will be provided). No other complimentary alcohol will be provided; guests are responsible for covering the cost of any additional alcoholic beverages ordered.