Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz trained to be an ER doctor at The Pitt! Not the fictional one on the HBO show but the real one, Allegheny General Hospital. He knows first-hand what’s at stake with huge Medicaid cuts – it’s a life or death issue. Society must pay attention. Watch as he explains: If you…
California State Senator Anna Caballero is featured in the Migrant Child Farmworkers to High-Profile Professionals© documentary. Anna was born to a family of copper miners. She is a graduate of UCLA Law School with a career trajectory that is astoundingly impactful:. In 1998, Senator Caballero made history as the first woman elected Mayor in the…
The local paper in Porterville, California is The Porterville Recorder. Porterville plays a starring role in the Migrant Child Farmworkers to High-Profile Professionals documentary as the Central Valley community is where the seeds for the documentary were planted – 20 years ago! The Porterville Recorder’s article entitled “Ramon’s Resilience” wrote about Dr. Ramon Resa, one of the…
We recently held a private screening of the Migrant Child Farmworkers to High-Profile Professionals© documentary at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum (“the Ath”) on the Claremont McKenna College campus. While there, we were interviewed for the Ath’s “Free Food for Thought” podcast by Natalie Chen, a CMC student and its co-director. Free Food for Thought gives CMC students a…
Geovanni Suarez is getting noticed in his hometown of Porterville, California. Today, he is front page news with the local paper – The Porterville Recorder which describes how Geo is following in the footsteps of Dr. Ramon Resa who returned to his Central Valley community to care for kids like he once was. Like Dr.…
Fernando – on thinking BIG: “I remember meeting with a former student of mine, Esteban Burchard, when he entered Stanford Medical School. I asked him what he wanted to do. He said he wanted to be a family practitioner. I told him, ‘I don’t want you to be just a family doctor. I want you…
First-generation college student and son of Mexican farm working immigrants, on his way to becoming a primary care physician in California’s Central Valley. Geovanni Suarez grew up in the small rural town of Porterville in California’s Central Valley. His pediatrician was Ramon Resa, an abandoned farmworker boy in Central Valley who became a doctor and…
Brandon Guzmán is featured in the Migrant Child Farmworkers Now High-Profile Professionals© documentary. Brandon came to the U.S. from Mexico City when he was a young child. By the time he was 7 years old he worked as a migrant child farmworker in the Central Valley of California. Excelling in school, Brandon earned a law…
We are working to expand the reach of the stories in the Migrant Child Farmworkers to High-Profile Professionals documentary. As an important step, we now offer a Spanish language option so that many more people can learn about the film’s important and inspiring messages! Please spread the word.
Dr. Ramon Resa is a pediatrician. He is also a former abandoned migrant child farmworker who returned to his Central Valley community to care for and be a role model for kids like he used to be. Seemingly hidden, there are many examples of former migrant child farmworkers who have succeeded beyond anyone’s imagination. The…