Carlos E. Cortés is a professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about Diversity and is a creative/cultural advisor for Nickelodeon's Peabody Award-winning children's television series Dora the Explorer and its spinoff, Go, Diego, Go!, for which he received a 2009 NAACP Image Award. He performs his one-man autobiographical play, A Conversation with Alana: One Boy's Multicultural Rite of Passage, across the country and has lectured widely throughout the world. He is General Editor of the Sage Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, due out in 2013.