Tina Vasquez is an award-winning Journalist, editor and essayist focusing on racial injustice and the intersection of immigration and reproductive justice.^[2] She came to Prism from the social justice think tank Political Research Associates, where she was assistant research director of the gender, reproductive justice, and sexuality team.

Vasquez is a movement journalist with more than 10 years of experience focusing on immigration, reproductive justice, and culture.

Prior to joining Political Research Associate as an assistant research editor, she was senior immigration reporter for Rewire.News, a journalism non-profit where she covered the U.S. immigration system and the people it targets. With Rewire.News, she has developed partnerships with The New York Review of Books and NPR’s Latino USA.^[4]

Her work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, Npr, The Nation, The Guardian and a variety of other publications. She is currently a mentor in the Freedomways Fellowship Program as part of Press On, a Southern journalism collective that strengthens and expands the practice of journalism in service of liberation. She came to Prism from the social justice think tank Political Research Associates, where she was assistant research director of the gender, reproductive justice, and sexuality team. She was formerly an associate editor at Black Girl Dangerous.

Tina has presented at several conferences, including Netroots Nation and the National Judicial Bypass Convening. She single-handedly shaped the outlet’s first immigration beat, authoring enterprise and longform stories focusing on marginalized communities impacted by immigration enforcement. ^[5]

Vasquez is a recipient of a Media Consortium 2015 Impact Award and a 2018 Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) Media Excellence Award.

She is a 2014 VONA/Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation alumna and the winner of the Media Consortium’s 2015 Impact Award for her story “It’s Time to End the Long History of Feminism Failing Transgender Women.”

Vasquez is originally from Los Angeles, California but is currently based in North Carolina.

Tina can be followed on Twitter where she goes by the handle @TheTinaVasquez.^[1]

In her spare time, Vasquez writes about food and culture.^[3]