Doyle Canning, of smartMeme, is hosting a lunchtime panel featuring Michelle Moon Lee (Quilted), Steve Backman (Database Designs), and Sunanda Nair (MataHari – Eye of the Day). They will be joined by pioneering journalist and organizer, Roberto Lovato. He is co-founder of Presente.org which Basta Dobbs! campaign. This innovative campaign holds CNN accountable for the virulent anti-Latino, anti-immigrant propagandizing by its anchor, Lou Dobbs.
About Roberto:
Lovato is a New York-based writer with New America Media and a frequent contributor to The Nation Magazine. Prior to becoming a writer, Lovato was the former Executive Director of CARECEN, which was the largest immigrant rights organization in the country.
He's also written for the Los Angeles Times, Salon, Der Spiegel, Utne Magazine, La Opinion, and other national and international media outlets. He has also appeared as a source and commentator on English and Spanish language network news shows on Univision, CNN, PBS and other programs and made a recent appearance on Bill Moyers Journal. On the creative electronic front, Roberto has produced programming for NPR, Pacifica and the Univision Television Network, where he helped develop and produce Hora Cero, one of that networks first documentary series about immigration in the United States. He also appears as a regular guest on Meet the Bloggers, a neat new net based syndicated television show. You can find him posting regularly on media, migration, politics and other issues at his blog, www.ofamerica.wordpress.com.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roberto-lovato/
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