Michael De La Rocha

UCLA is a place that profoundly changed my life.  It was a place that helped develop some of America’s greatest civic leaders and organizers and a place that personally transformed how I view myself and the world. A place where I got to test my own personal biases and had the safety net to ...

“Mike, I was sentenced to die in prison.”  As hard as it was for me to fathom, these words were spoken to me by a young 16 year old boy that I met at Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall, the largest juvenile detention facility in the northern hemisphere.

Walking through an airport recently, I saw the latest edition of Inc. Magazine with the cover story named “Six Ways to Save the World: A Practical Guide to Social Entrepreneurship.” Intrigued by the title, I bought the magazine and immediately began reading an article entitled, “Start a company. Change the world.”   

Six months ago, one of the worst tragedies in human history occurred on the impoverished country of Haiti. Six months ago, 230,000 to 300,000 people were killed in a magnitude-7 earthquake that left Six months ago, one of the worst tragedies in human history occurred on the impoverished country ...

I’ve been engaged in a number of conversations about the perceived loss of hope and the inability of any political party to capture the fervor and excitement that propelled Barack Obama into the

As we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., one of America’s greatest civil rights leaders, I’d like to acknowledge another angel walking among us. You see, the reason why we cherish people

My story is America’s story. One of a father born and raised in a small pueblo in Chihuahua, Mexico who grew up poor, yet extremely content with the love that he received from his family. A story