Erica Alfaro, the grad who stood with her parents in the strawberry field, looks to motivate women
BY ALEXANDRA MENDOZAWRITER
OCT. 15, 2021 11:29 AM PT
OCEANSIDE — Erica Alfaro wrote the book she would have wanted to read 15 years ago. Back then, she had become a teenage mother, was a victim of domestic violence and spoke little English.
But two years ago, she was a college graduate, who attracted international attention. Her SDSU graduation photo went viral. Alfaro, in cap and gown, smiling with her parents, both immigrant farm workers, posing in the middle of a strawberry field in Carlsbad.
Erica Alfaro, 31, on Oct. 6 at her Oceanside home, with her book, Cosechando Sueños (Harvesting Dreams).
(Alexandra Mendoza - U-T)
