Tag: immigrants
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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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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…
