Roberto Gonzales's guest appearances

Roberto Gonzales

The Student-Centered Learning Podcast

Chapter One with Greg Grasso

Andrew Peterson

Patrick O'Donnell

Tess Gerritsen

Les Klinger

Joseph Finder

Sir Ken Robinson

Mike Kelly

Lee Child

Greg Zuckerman

Clint Emerson

Jay Richards

Ridley Pearson

Tavis Smiley

Robert Crais

Matthew Palmer

OwlTail

Nerd culture and student-centered learning for STEM, with Roberto Gonzales, Founder and Director of Steambox Rhode Island.  Interview by Reza Clifton.

Nerd culture and student-centered learning for STEM, with Roberto Gonzales, Founder and Director of Steambox Rhode Island. 

Over two million of the nation’s eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigration system, they grow up to uncertain futures. In Lives in Limbo, Roberto G. Gonzales introduces us to two groups: the college-goers, like Ricardo, who had good grades and a strong network of community support that propelled him to college and DREAM Act organizing but still landed in a factory job a few short years after graduation, and the early-exiters, like Gabriel, who failed to make meaningful connections in high school and started navigating dead-end jobs, immigration checkpoints, and a world narrowly circumscribed by legal limitations. This vivid ethnography explores why highly educated undocumented youth share similar work and life outcomes with their less-educated peers, despite the fact that higher education is touted as the path to integration and success in America. Mining the results of an extraordinary twelve-year study that followed 150 undocumented young adults in Los Angeles, Lives in Limbo exposes the failures of a system that integrates children into K-12 schools but ultimately denies them the rewards of their labor.

Roberto Gonzales - Lives in Limbo