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Monica Ramirez says she was always destined to be an activist. Raised in a Mexican-American household, her family chose to live a farming life outside the migrant stream, "picking crops in different states across the country", as she likes to put it. Back then, she got to discover a vibrant agricultural community that would not only share their experiences working the fields, but their shared immigrant lives as a whole.
