Amanda Pérez Pintado, Investigate Midwest/Report for America
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Amanda Pérez Pintado, Investigate Midwest/Report for America is a corps member with Report for America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms.
![Demarkius Medley in a black hoodie and white mask on his hemp farm in Galesburg,Illinois on a sunny day with plants and a trailer in the background February 2022.](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Demarkius-Medley-on-his-hemp-farm-in-Galesburg-Illinois-February-2022.jpg)
![Market on the Hill in Mt. Pulaski, IL with blue awning and sidewalk January 2022.](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Midwest-Grocery-markey-hill-january-2022.jpeg)
![Harvest gets underway at the Anderson Farm near Mansfield, IL on Wednesday, October 2, 2013. January 2022](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/truck-shortage-wages-january-2022-e1642615619941.jpeg)
![A man carries box at the Greater Chicago Food Depository. October 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Food-Insecurity-33-ZF-1735-12816-1-033-e1634661549392.jpeg)
![Happy Hollow Farm had a difficult time selling their food to restaurants and a local grocery store during the pandemic, but saw a huge demand in selling online and through their CSA. October 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/happy-hollow-farm-imidwest-october-2021.jpeg)
![A worker at a meat processing plant, cuts off fat on a cut of meat wearing blue gloves. October 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/worker-cleaning-cut-of-meat-processing-plant-oct-2021.jpg)
![A sticker with information on how to get help from human trafficking is posted on bathroom doors and mirrors above the sink inside the women’s restroom at a Casey’s gas station in Huntington, Indiana on Friday, September 17, 2021. photo by Pam Dempsey/The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/midwest-human-trafficking-sign-september-2021.jpeg)
![Andrew Geiser pets his pigs on Friday, March 19, 2021, in Chillicothe, Mo.](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/pig-producer-with-several-hogs-in-field-September-2021.jpg)
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Amanda Pérez Pintado, Investigate Midwest/Report for America is a corps member with Report for America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms.