Migrant Child Farmworkers to High-Profile Professionals©
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Xolo Maridueña, star of Blue Beetle, and Cobra Kai is the on-camera presenter of this original documentary film which tells the real life stories of eleven children, most of whom lived in poverty, were often hungry and neglected. The childhoods of six of them were filled with the punishing demands of full-time farm labor. This was exacerbated by society’s cruel indifference to what they were going through. They were relentlessly reminded, “You will never go to a good college or make it in a white-collar job.”
Yet today they are engineers, physicians, medical research scientists and individuals elected to the U.S. Congress and California State Assembly and Senate. Their impressive accomplishments include authoring hundreds of scientific research papers published in The New England Journal of Medicine; contributing to the engineering of pivotal Apple products and teaching medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine and the UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program.
Their achievements showcase what the children of migrant farmworkers are capable of and is a tribute to the indelible human spirit. Their personal and professional success is irrefutable evidence that every child has been endowed with the same unlimited human potential, no matter their circumstances or backgrounds. Their success stories are destined to replace society’s cartoonish, worn out immigrant bashing myths and stereotypes. A welcome breath of fresh air for all to enjoy.