The Story of Child Farm Workers Who Became High-Profile Professionals
Audiences Have Not Seen Amazing Stories Like Theirs
Book this live, in-person experience that includes a private screening of Told They Can’t © , the eye opening documentary featuring the inspiring stories of ten high-profile professionals of color. While growing up they experienced homelessness, hunger, poverty, neglect, and abuse, exacerbated by society’s cruel indifference toward their suffering. Many worked full-time as child farm laborers, with their 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. Their success, in defiance of seemingly impossible adversity, is a testament to the indomitable human spirit. Their examples of turning poverty and hardship into personal and professional triumph showcase what is indeed possible for all, including children from immigrant and refugee families, and those experiencing homelessness or other extraordinary family crises.
One or several of the film’s subjects will be the in-person session presenter(s) to interact with attendees via panel discussions, lectures, workshops, and/or breakout groups in combination with the exclusive private screening of the documentary film, Told They Can’t © .
Former Congressman Cárdenas to attendees, “Raise your hand if you’ve been told you can’t”.
Told They Can’t © is currently available for private screenings and live in person speaking events with the film subjects. Contact: [email protected]
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