Ricardo Rodriguez is a 26-year-old San Diego resident and former foster youth who balances a job in tech with volunteer work and entrepreneurial pursuits. Thanks to his relentless drive and support from key sources, his life has turned out far different from previous expectations. During his childhood, medical professionals said Rodriguez would never be able to walk, talk or understand words. Despite many obstacles, Rodriguez has made his lifelong dream of working in the tech industry a reality.
As a child in foster care, the physical challenges that I faced were quite severe. In addition to having partial vision in my right eye and no vision in my left eye, I did not have the ability to walk, think or to understand what was happening around me. I wasn’t able to do any of the things that a regular 3-year-old could do – up until the age of 11.
At the time of my birth, the birth giver was, essentially, not taking care of herself and unable to take care of me. I was born three months premature and spent the first four months of my life in the hospital.
[For more on this story by Ricardo Rodriguez, as told to Holden Slattery, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...e-wasnt-wasted/32022]
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