Jana Nino Tapias planned to spend the summer before her first year at Stanford Medical School doing contact tracing or working retail.

But when her job search hit a dead end, she went back to

seasonal fruit picking, work she's been doing since she was 14. At the end of one long day,

she tweeted about farm workers like her being paid $7 for two gallons of blueberries. She then

asked, how much do you pay for your blueberries? I had to talk to her.

I did.

And learned so much about her path to medicine as a first-gen college student, indigenous rights, farm workers' rights,

and what consumers need to know about the people who make their food possible.

Jenna, where are you right now?

I'm in Stanford, California, or Palo Alto, California.

So you're back at school?

I'm back at school now, yeah.

I always remember those summers during college going home, and it's so strange because you have all this independence when you're at school and then you come home and your parents treat you like you were still in high school.

Right.

Right.

And every time I go home, there's just a large expectation.

Not necessarily for my mom.

I think it's just like my own expectation that I should be like helping my mom and like doing some chores and like lightening her load

that at school it's like you're right like complete freedom and like I do whatever I want whenever

I want. Do you perceive your mom to have a heavy load? Yeah absolutely. I think you know she's our only

parent and I think that you know we go to work and she has to come home

and make some meals for everyone and there's five of us. And she's kind of like a clean freak,

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