From Oakland gang-member to renowned California academic, Dr. Victor Rios opens up about childhood ...Middle East

Dr. Victor Rios is not your typical professor. While growing up on welfare in Oakland, Rios and his three siblings learned to fend for themselves as their single mom bounced from one low-paid job to the next. In his teenage years, Rios’ friend group got sucked into the West-Oakland gang scene, where violence and drug abuse were the norm. The toll of that adolescent gang-life was staggering. Some of his childhood friends died before reaching adulthood. Many ended up in prison, or lost themselves to drug addiction. Few graduated high school. Dr. Rios, meanwhile, graduated with a PhD in Comparative Ethnic Studies in 2005 from UC Berkeley, and now serves as a MacArthur Foundation Chair and Profe

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