I'm a former farm worker. I spent my summer vacations in middle and high school picking crops. I've picked strawberrries and garlic. I was also an irrigator. Being a field worker meant I had mud on my hands and dust on my face. It meant working sun-up to sun-down.

I was always curious as a kid. I always wanted to know things first. And I always wanted to tell people what I knew. I never knew that would lead me into journalism. It started as a freshman in college, when a friend asked me to help out with the college radio station at San Jose State University. That's when I fell in love with the microphone. The university molded my instinctual curiosity into journalistc inquisitiveness. I'm proud to say that I eventually traded in my farm worker shovel, for the prestigious Emmy Award.