Dr. Joao J. Rosa is the Executive Director of the Pedro Pires Cape Verdean Studies Institute at Bridgewater State University. He is an Associate Professor of Education and former chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth. He is the author of three books: Pedagogy in the Age of Media Control. Language Deception and Digital Democracy; Capitalism's Educational Catastrophe and the Advancing Endgame Revolt; Language Discourses and the Realities of the Classroom. Winning the Battle for Control. He is an international curriculum advisor for the University of Cape Verde and a community activist.