The Migrant Child Farmworkers-Now High-Profile Professionals^©

Xolo Maridueña – Featured Presenter

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Hidden stories of potential

Xolo Maridueña (Star of Blue Beetle, and Cobra Kai) is the on-camera presenter of a new original documentary film, The Migrant Child Farmworkers-Now High-Profile Professionals^©. In it Xolo tells the inspiring stories of eleven individuals* who are former full time migrant child farmworkers. Growing up they experienced seemingly impossible hardships including homelessness, hunger, poverty, neglect and abuse. Yet each of them found a way to become a successful high-profile professional in spite of what they went through as children.

Today they are doctors, medical researchers, an entertainment attorney, engineers, leaders in education and individuals elected to the U.S. Congress and California state government. Their impressive accomplishments include authoring hundreds of scientific research papers published in the New England Journal of Medicine; contributing in the engineering and development of pivotal Apple products such as the iPad and MacBook Pro and teaching medicine at UCSF Fresno and Stanford School of Medicine.

One formerly undocumented migrant child farmworker featured in the film earned his law degree at UCLA. He went on to become a successful Hollywood talent manager and producer. He’s Xolo’s long time business manager. The pair work together seeking new ways for a larger number of individuals of color, including Latinos, to gain entertainment industry opportunities. They develop and advocate for new programming that presents a more accurate and realistic portrayal of their community members and of all people of color in movies, television and all media. While actively resisting the usual roles offered which type cast all in their community as gang bangers, drug dealers, thieves and the like (across all forms of media, past and present ).

The success stories featured here showcase what is indeed possible for anyone. Authoritatively debunking the modern (same old) counterfactual narrative about Latinos, refugees, immigrants, migrant farm laborers, and others vilified by society. Their stories are a timely reminder that every child is endowed with limitless potential, no matter their background or circumstances. As such, deserves to be treated with dignity, seen as equally important, valuable and worthy of receiving every opportunity to flourish.

*(some featured are the children of migrant farmworkers)

Former Working Title: Told They Can’t