A life of poverty, abuse and neglect prepared Lucas for the fighter she would become in later life. A founder of the first United Farm Workers’ center in the mid-west, Lucas facilitated social services, day-care centers, health clinics and immigration counseling. She was an organizer in 1985 with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee and presided over a full union election and contract. Her oral history, Forged Under the Sun/Forjada Bajo el Sol edited by Fran Leeper Buss underscored the oppression and abuse women faced in the fields and in the union halls. Her poems, plays, and essays focus on social justice issues.

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