Roberto Lovato
Journalist Roberto Lovato is the author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas. Lovato is also an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The Scarlet Macaw: Out of Place and at Home in the Desert
Roberto Lovato goes on a very personal search for the feathers of this tropical bird, which have been prized for their beauty, spiritual meaning, and healing power for millennia.
The Gentrification of Consciousness
San Francisco’s Mission district has become synonymous with well-paid tech workers displacing non-white longtime residents. It’s now the setting for a new battle, as the coming psychedelic-industrial complex threatens to strip hallucinogenic drugs of their historical and religious significance.
‘Unforgetting’
Roberto Lovato uses a backdrop of war and immigration to tell the story of his family in his powerful new book. In this short excerpt, the author introduces a businessman to the realities of Los Angeles in the spring of 1992.