Growing up as a farm worker in a poor family of fifteen, the odds were against Ramón Resa to break out of his bleak reality. Abandoned by his single mother, who had five kids before she was 20, he grew up in an environment of severe poverty, neglect, and a disregard for education. At the age of three, he was picking cotton in the fields of central California.
It was Ramón’s elementary-school teachers who opened his eyes to the idea of education and awakened in him the dream of going to college and