Highlighting Contributions to Society by High Profile, First-Generation Students of Color
The most important lesson to learn is to not allow anyone to label you as disadvantaged if you come from poverty, broken homes or have faced extraordinary challenges … view them as your advantage and know that because of your pain and suffering, because of your hardships, because of your poverty you have the strength, the grit, the fortitude, the resiliency, the kindness, the compassion and the empathy to realize your goal much greater than others who have never experienced those and that leads to your greatness. So own it, OWN it and move from being the victim to be the visionary. | RAUL RUIZ, MD – U.S. Congressman
Katherine Flores, MD, – Director Latino Center for Medical Education & Research | UCSF Fresno
California Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva
California Assemblyman Jose Medina
California Assemblywoman Blanca E. Rubio
Fernando S. Mendoza, MD – Associate Dean of Minority Advising and Programs and Professor of Pediatrics at The Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital, Emeritus
Lisa Ramirez, Ed.D Chief Innovation Officer, Lubbock ISD | Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Programs in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
California Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia
Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH – UCSF | Professor of Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences Pharmacogenomics and Genetic Epidemiology of Pulmonary Disease