Douglas HS soccer goalie America Romero achieved over 100 saves this season. The high school sophomore hopes to play soccer at UCLA and eventually become an orthodontist.

I am going to go to college,'" Romero said. It pushed her to leave her farmworking community and go to the University of Arizona, eventually working for the county and becoming Tucson’s first ...

It's summer break in the late '80s, and Tucson's future mayor is doing what many in the small farmworker community of Somerton do: working the fields. Born in Yuma to farmworker immigrant parents, ...

The summer of 1990 was particularly challenging, Romero said. She was working in the fields: packaging lettuce and lifting boxes onto a conveyor belt, trying to make enough money to buy a car. Romero ...