Harvesting dreams: Defying the odds to achieve the American Dream

In 2019, photographs of a young Hispanic girl, dressed in a graduation cap and gown, standing in a field with her farm worker mother and father, went viral. It was Erica Alfaro who, in celebration of having completed her master's degree, decided to honor the sacrifices of her parents by taking her graduation pictures in the field where they had worked long hours to provide her with an education.

This is the testimony of a young woman who spent her childhood between Mexico and the United Sta...