Category: Inspiration
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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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By: Jen Belcastro, author of her memoir, Even Strong Girls Cry. In a world that often tests our limits in unexpected ways, resilience becomes more than just a trait—it becomes a lifeline. I’ve had to learn this lesson firsthand through my own harrowing experiences with illness, injustice, and personal upheaval. Today, I want to share…
