Roberto Lovato

Who is Roberto Lovato?

Roberto Lovato 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, then the country’s largest immigrant rights organization.