Roberto Lovato is a journalist, educator, and writer living in San Francisco Bay Area. He is a member of The Grotto, an organization for writers in the San Francisco Bay area. He was a visiting scholar at U.C. Berkeley's 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, national security, and climate change. His work also explores the links between the online and offline worlds and between storytelling and social movements.