Roberto Rivera earned a degree in Social Change, Youth Culture and the Arts – a major he built for himself – from the University of Wisconsin in 2004. He went on to earn a master’s degree in youth development from the University of Illinois – Chicago and is now a doctoral candidate back at UW. He is also the President and Lead Change Agent of The Good Life Organization, which publishes multimedia educational tools and trains educators, youth workers, and parents in connecting positive youth development to community development.
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