The Migrant Child Farmworkers Who Became High-Profile Professionals
Their Stories Will Change Today’s False Narrative
Told They Can’t © Is the eye opening documentary that features the untold stories of ten high-profile professionals of color. Growing up, they experienced homelessness, hunger, poverty, neglect, and abuse, exacerbated by society’s cruel indifference to their suffering. Many worked full-time as child farm laborers, with any earnings going to help with family survival.
Today they’re doctors, research scientists, engineers, educators, and leaders 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 development of pivotal Apple products such as the Bondi Blue iMac, the Cube, iPad, MacBook Pro; and teaching medicine at Stanford School of Medicine and UCSF Fresno. This success, in defiance of seemingly impossible adversity, is a testament to the indomitable human spirit. Their ability to turn poverty and hardship into personal and professional triumph showcases what is indeed possible for all, including children of immigrant and refugee families, and those experiencing homelessness or other extraordinary family crises.
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Former Congressman Cárdenas to attendees, “Raise your hand if you’ve been told you can’t”.
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