Raul Rodriguez

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As a child, Rosa Maria Berdeja couldn’t imagine she would go to college, much less become a successful attorney. Growing up in the 1980s in the Texas border town of Brownsville, she was told by her mother that she could drop out of high school as soon as it was legally possible, as long as she got a job to help pay bills. That’s what her five older siblings did, and she assumed she would too.