I see it as I get to be a vehicle for them to discover who they are.

I need to serve the community that had raised me where I was born and raised.

I had made a promise to a gentleman, a labor organizer, an activist that I would come back with my profession to serve in Imperial County.

I arrived into a rural small town.

It was on the border with Mexico.

It was agricultural and it was a very segregated place.

Railroad tracks separated.

When I was accepted at Stanford,