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FOR MOST OF HER CAREER, Sheila Soto, a public health worker based in Tucson, Arizona, has worked to bring health services directly to low-income and immigrant communities. She grew up in Idaho, where her parents were farmworkers, and spent much of her early career doing community outreach to immigrants and Latino agricultural workers.

“I honestly hated working in the fields when I was young,” she told me. “So I promised myself I would do whatever I could to