Behind the Scenes with Humberto Rodriguez

1. Episode · Jul 13, 2026

   With Favian Valencia: From the Orchards to a Run for Congress (opens the original)

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   Favian Valencia grew up in the orchards of the Yakima Valley. Farmworker family, first in his family to finish high school, first to go to college. He drove himself to Gonzaga with a boom box, a pillow, and a paper map. He built his own law firm from day one, opened a cafe in Yakima with his mom and his three sisters, and spent four years living and working out of a van before he came home. Now he is running for Congress as an independent, in the most Republican district in the state. In this co

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2. Episode · Jul 12, 2026

   With Maria Cuevas | Education, Community, and Why She's Running (opens the original)

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   Maria Cuevas is a longtime educator, a scholar of Chicano studies, a former professor at Yakima Valley College, and a candidate for Yakima County Auditor in 2026. This is not a stump speech. It's a two-hour conversation about where she comes from, how she was shaped, what she's tried to teach over the last forty years, and why she's stepping into this race at this point in her life. We cover: Her grandfather Cuevas, who left Porfirio Diaz's Mexico because they wouldn't educate the poor Her mothe

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