Roberto Lovato is an educator, journalist and writer based at The Writers Grotto in San Francisco, California. He is the author of UNFORGETTING: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas. Lovato is also a Co-Founder of #DignidadLiteraria, the movement advocating for equity and literary justice for the more than 60 million Latinx persons left off of bookshelves in the United States and out of the national dialogue. A recipient of a reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center, Lovato has reported on numerous issues --- violence, terrorism, the drug war and the refugee crisis --- from Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Haiti, France and the United States, among other countries.

Books by Roberto Lovato

Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas

by Roberto Lovato - Memoir, Nonfiction

The child of Salvadoran immigrants, Roberto Lovato grew up in 1970s and ’80s San Francisco as MS-13 and other notorious Salvadoran gangs were forming in California. He eventually traded the violence of the streets for human rights advocacy in wartime El Salvador, where he joined the guerilla movement against the U.S.-backed, fascist military government responsible for some of the most barbaric massacres and crimes against humanity in recent history. In UNFORGETTING, Roberto interweaves his father’s complicated history and his own with firsthand reportage on gang life, state violence and the heart of the immigration crisis in both El Salvador and the United States.