Jessica Govea Thorbourne

Jessica Govea Thorbourne (1947 - January 23, 2005) was a labor activist, United Farm Worker union leader, and educator. She is best known for her life long efforts to achieve justice, equality, education, and economic opportunity for Latino laborers. At age 58, she died from breast cancer in West Orange, New Jersey. However, she believed that the true source of her illness later in life was related to the damaging pesticides that she had worked with for years.