Clara Ramirez was born in Orange County and grew up in Irvine, the daughter of immigrants from Mexico who met in Texas and relocated here to work the strawberry fields and other crops. All her parents expected of her and her two siblings was for them to work hard and graduate from high school. “Working was the No. 1 thing for them,” Ramirez says. “They hoped we would go to college, but it was never an expectation. They never graduated from high school.” Ramirez, in particular, vastly exceeded the expectations of her parents, Clara and Lizandro, the latter of which,…