Roberto Lovato is the award-winning author of Unforgetting, a memoir recognized by New York Times, Newsweek, and LA Times. He is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and an international journalist, who has reported on racism, criminal justice, psychedelics and health, the drug war, and the immigration and refugee crisis. At Mesa he worked on his book about the scarlet macaw and how and why this bird - whose native habitat is in the south - became so deeply embedded in the cultures, cosmogonies and consciousness of the Zuni, Hopi, Cochiti and other northern desert peoples, as well as the Aztecs, Maya, and other indigenous peoples. You can learn more about Roberto Lovato here.