Category: Education
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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…
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Reading was key to saving Lisa’s life. Meet Lisa Ramirez, EdD.: Lisa was a migrant child farmworker who grew up in a small Texas town of 1,200 people. She faced brutal conditions in all aspects of her life – in her family, in the fields where she worked as a migrant child farmworker, and in…
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We held a special private screening of Migrant Child Farmworkers to High-Profile Professionals © on July 22nd at the Hill Center in Washington, DC where six of the ten professionals featured in the film attended: Congressman Raul Ruiz, Lisa Ramirez, Fernando Mendoza MD, Ramon Resa MD, former Congressman Tony Cárdenas and Enrique Diaz. Also in attendance…
