Roberto Lovato is a writer and professor. He was a visiting scholar at

U.C. Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant univ ...

's Center for Latino Policy Research for three years. Lovato has also received a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. His journalistic work spans the entire hemisphere and centers on immigration, the war on drugs,

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, and climate change. His work also explores the links between the online and offline worlds and between storytelling and

social movement A social movement is a loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one. This may be to carry out a social change, or to resist or undo one. It is a type of group action and may ...

s. His first book, the memoir, ''Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas'', was published in September 2020 from HarperCollins. Publishers Weekly reported it "Mixing fraught reminiscence with vivid reportage."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lovato, Roberto Living people 1963 births American male journalists American alternative journalists