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…
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…
With Speakers Enrique Diaz and Lisa Ramirez as well as Mgrublian Center for Human Rights’s Benjamin Simington