Tag: farmworkers
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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…
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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…
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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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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 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.
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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…
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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…
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People ask me why I made Migrant Child Farmworkers to High-Profile Professionals ©, a film about people of color who were homeless, hungry, abused, discriminated against, former child farm laborers and immigrants. What could I possibly have in common with them? I’ve asked myself countless times over the ten long, arduous and self-esteem-eroding years it’s…
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We all saw the video of California Senator Alex Padilla being strong-armed out of press conference room, taken out to the hallway, shoved face-down onto the floor and handcuffed behind his back. We saw how he clearly stated his name as they shoved him out the door, “I’m … Senator … Alex .. Padilla,” as…
