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, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley ...

's Center for Latino Policy Research for three years. Lovato has also received a grant from the

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an American news media organization established in 2006 that sponsors independent reporting on global issues that other media outlets are less willing or able to undertake on their own. The center's go ...

. His journalistic work spans the entire hemisphere and centers on

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, the war on drugs,

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, and

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

social movement A social movement is either a loosely or carefully organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a Social issue, social or Political movement, political one. This may be to carry out a social change, or to re ...

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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