Victor Rios
Sociologist | Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Incarceration
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Victor Rios is a sociologist and author who has dedicated his career to understanding and addressing the school-to-prison pipeline. As a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, his research explores how disadvantaged youth navigate the challenges of poverty, gangs, and the criminal justice system.
Rios' powerful TED talk, 'The Radical Experiment of Humanizing the Juvenile Justice System,' has been viewed over 1. 5 million times, inspiring criminal justice reform.
His keynotes provide empirically-grounded strategies for supporting at-risk youth and dismantling systemic inequities.
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Help for kids the education system ignores
Define students by what they contribute, not what they lack -- especially those with difficult upbringings, says educator Victor Rios. Interweaved with his personal tale of perseverance as an inner-city youth, Rios identifies three straightforward strategies to shift attitudes in education and calls for fellow educators to see "at-risk" students as "at-promise" individuals brimming with resilience, character and grit.
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