Roberto Lovato

Roberto Lovato
Born	1963 San Francisco, CA
Occupation	Author, activist
Subjects	Politics, Race, Immigration, Latinos
www.robertolovato.com

Roberto Lovato (born 1963) is a writer and commentator with New America Media and a strategy consultant and co-founder of Presente.org, an online Latino advocacy organization.

Roberto has written and spoken extensively about a number of critical issues including climate change, national politics, immigration, Latin American politics, national security, race and race relations. He is a frequent contributor to The Nation and the Huffington Post and his work has appeared in U.S. and international media outlets including: the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Der Spiegel, Utne Magazine, and La Opinion. He has also appeared as a source and commentator in the New York Times, the Washington Post and Le Monde and in English and Spanish language network news shows on Univision, CNN, Democracy Now and Al-Jazeera.

In March 2011, Roberto was awarded a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Prior to becoming a writer, Roberto was the Executive Director of the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), then the country’s largest immigrant rights organization.

External links

• Official website
• Column archive at Huffington Post
• Column archive at Colorlines
• Column archive at Alternet
• Presente.org Presente.org