Overcoming Hardship The Story of Angelica Flores’ Triumph over Adversity Tehachapi, Calif. - Angelica Flores, an EPIC de Cesar Chavez alumni, is graduating this month from College of the Desert on the Dean’s List and Honor Roll. During her time at College of the Desert, she became a published author of several poems, received a scholarship from Democrat Women’s of the Desert, and is working toward becoming an English and and Spanish teacher with Farmworkers Institute of Education & Leadership Development - FIELD Ms. Flores was born in Jerez Zacatecas, Mexico. She moved to the US with her mother and sister in 1990 at the age of 9. She is the youngest of 16 children, however, 8 died at birth or due to complications at a young age. Her father was in the Bracero program, a manual labor program originally established in 1942. At 14 she began working to help the family, and when it became too difficult to keep up with school and work to help support her family, she dropped out of hi