Thipsuda Muenpho, Georgianna Tekirdagli

Alfredo Quinones- Hinojosa

      Mr. Alfredo Quinones is from Mexico. He is a neurosurgeon  and professor at John Hopkins University, and a researcher who is looking for a breakthrough in the treatment of brain cancer.

      His life started in Mexico. When he was 5 years old he was working at his father 's gas station. When the Mexico's economy collapsed his father could no longer keep food on the table for the family ,but he continued his schooling and became a teacher by the time he was 18; he was unable to provide for his family too like his father and made the decision to head north.

      He hopped a border fence from Mexico into the United States and became a migrant farm-worker. He picked cotton , tomatoes and cantaloupes, and lived in the fields in a broken-down camper. When his cousin told him he would be a farm-worker for the rest of his life , he realized he have to move on.

     He did English classes at a community college and he attend the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley he went there with a scholarship. He went on to Harvard Medical School. By that time he received his U.S. citizenship.