Tina Vasquez
Senior staff writer
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Tina Vasquez is a senior staff writer at The Counter focusing on immigration, gender, and food systems. She was previously a senior reporter at Prism, a women of color-led non-profit news outlet. A 2020 Type Investigations Ida B. Wells Fellow, she has written for The Nation, NPR, Playboy, and the Boston Globe. She is based in North Carolina.
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![Brown hands prepare tamales with a fence and cornmeal border. June 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/tamales-ice-detention-covid-feature-image-vasquez-June-2021.jpg)