Teenager Develops App to Keep Farmworkers Safe in Heat

Growing up in a multi-generational family of farmworkers in California’s Central Valley, 17-year-old Faith Florez knows the toll it takes to bring strawberries, almonds and grapes to the table. Images stick in her mind: Of her grandfather Raymond, his fingers bloody from handling the thorned stems of roses. Of her great-grandmother Stella, a politically minded woman who liked her coffee black, dying at 63 after years of farm labor wore her body down. And of the summer heat — constant, sweltering, alive in her grandfather’s memory as he told stories of working the fields...