Thomas Nazario
Professor of Law
University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA USA
“Nobody ever told me as a kid that I could really amount to much at all.”
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By Roadtrip NationThomas Nazario
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My road in life has been direct.
He grew up in Spanish Harlem, a ghetto in New York City.
One Thanksgiving, he saw a woman going through a garbage can with her daughter-that was their Thanksgiving dinner.
He realized that the planet wasn't as good as he'd thought it was, and he resolved to work to improve it.
His family raised him as a Spanish speaker, and he also struggled with dyslexia, so school was hard for him.
Finally he met a mentor that helped him out, and he was able to start excelling.
Says that without that mentor, he might not have succeeded; says that society tells kids of color that they won't amount to much.
Because of that, he's focused his law work on children's rights, especially on children in third-world countries.
Says he gets frustrated because people who have the capacity to do so much good for the world often do nothing.
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Professor of Law
I'm an attorney and law professor and work to alleviate poverty in several parts of the world.
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Los Angeles - Santa Fe
The RV breaks down as the team heads from Los Angeles to San Francisco before they interview law professor and children's rights activist Thomas Nazario. Then they go to Golden Gate Park to talk with David Miles, Jr., the "godfather of skating." Driving east into Utah, they visit the Great Salt Lake and talk with theater owners Eric and Sandy Jensen. The team pushes on to New Mexico and meets up with Christina Heyniger, an adventure tourism consultant.
