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Vanessa Sanchez
5800 Eubank Boulevard NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico (United States)
Phone: 4077608372
Email: vanesanchez0212@gmail.com
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5800 Eubank Boulevard NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico (United States)
Phone: 4077608372
Email: vanesanchez0212@gmail.com
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Investigative Reporter
Resumes ID: 10345
Resumes Views: 139
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Posted: 07.06.2023
Job Type: full time
Job Category: Newspapers,Online | New Media,Fellowships | Scholarship | Prizes
Updated: 2023-07-06 15:09:29
Education:
08.24.2020 - 05.20.2022
University of Maryland College Park
Journalism
Master’s Degree
Journalism
Master’s Degree
Work Experience:
Investigative reporter
09.06.2022 -
Searchlight New Mexico |
I’m a reporter with experience in investigative, enterprise and breaking news reporting for web and print. In my role, I focus on health emphasizing equity issues. My most recent stories have exposed disparities at the intersections of maternal health and race and mental health and policing. I produce investigative and enterprise stories on topics that include maternal health, worker shortages, mental health, DD waiver programs in New Mexico, the Navajo Nation and the U.S-Mexico border. I pitch ideas, analyze data, file record requests, build sources in various communities and write stories.
Searchlight New Mexico |
I’m a reporter with experience in investigative, enterprise and breaking news reporting for web and print. In my role, I focus on health emphasizing equity issues. My most recent stories have exposed disparities at the intersections of maternal health and race and mental health and policing. I produce investigative and enterprise stories on topics that include maternal health, worker shortages, mental health, DD waiver programs in New Mexico, the Navajo Nation and the U.S-Mexico border. I pitch ideas, analyze data, file record requests, build sources in various communities and write stories.
Local government and politics intern
06.01.2022 - 08.31.2022
The Washington Post |
As a Bradlee fellow and intern, I generated ideas, analyzed data and wrote stories for the local, national education, local government and politics desks. My stories included breaking news, enterprise stories and coverage of the 2022 primary elections. *COVID- 19 disparities*: I visited two coronavirus hot spots (an immigrant neighborhood and areas around poultry-processing plants in Maryland) to document how health and economic disparities persisted after two years of pandemic. *Food inequity*: I found that D.C. has the country’s highest rate of senior food insecurity. And while the city has several programs providing access to healthy meals, some seniors have fallen through the cracks. *Lack of representation in D.C. schools*: I found that teachers in D.C. are more racially diverse than the national average, but the city’s public and charter schools have struggled to resolve a deficit of Latino teachers and male teachers of color. *Immigration*: I broke a story about how a network of D.C. nonprofit organizations scrambled to help migrants who arrived from Texas and Arizona.
The Washington Post |
As a Bradlee fellow and intern, I generated ideas, analyzed data and wrote stories for the local, national education, local government and politics desks. My stories included breaking news, enterprise stories and coverage of the 2022 primary elections. *COVID- 19 disparities*: I visited two coronavirus hot spots (an immigrant neighborhood and areas around poultry-processing plants in Maryland) to document how health and economic disparities persisted after two years of pandemic. *Food inequity*: I found that D.C. has the country’s highest rate of senior food insecurity. And while the city has several programs providing access to healthy meals, some seniors have fallen through the cracks. *Lack of representation in D.C. schools*: I found that teachers in D.C. are more racially diverse than the national average, but the city’s public and charter schools have struggled to resolve a deficit of Latino teachers and male teachers of color. *Immigration*: I broke a story about how a network of D.C. nonprofit organizations scrambled to help migrants who arrived from Texas and Arizona.
Investigative reporter
01.04.2021 - 05.20.2022
The Howard Center for Investigative Reporting |
Howard fellow, lead reporter and writer of three national investigative stories. *Migrant workers safety protections*: An award-winning investigation about how three states and the federal government failed to protect migrant workers processing seafood in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. I pitched the story, led a team of reporters, collected data and translated the story into Spanish. After publication, the Mexican embassy visited migrant camps to collect information about potential violations of workers’ rights. *States lottery advertising*: I led a team of reporters, traveled to Texas and Virginia to find lottery players and wrote a story about how lotteries spend more than a half-billion dollars a year on pervasive marketing campaigns. *Printing Hate*: A series of stories into how white-owned newspapers incited terror in America. I traveled to three sundown towns in Kentucky to write a story about how the state’s newspapers blamed Black victims for lynchings. A second story explored how the Black press used photographs of lynchings to shock the world. I was selected to write the introduction of the project along with editor DeNeen Brown.
The Howard Center for Investigative Reporting |
Howard fellow, lead reporter and writer of three national investigative stories. *Migrant workers safety protections*: An award-winning investigation about how three states and the federal government failed to protect migrant workers processing seafood in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. I pitched the story, led a team of reporters, collected data and translated the story into Spanish. After publication, the Mexican embassy visited migrant camps to collect information about potential violations of workers’ rights. *States lottery advertising*: I led a team of reporters, traveled to Texas and Virginia to find lottery players and wrote a story about how lotteries spend more than a half-billion dollars a year on pervasive marketing campaigns. *Printing Hate*: A series of stories into how white-owned newspapers incited terror in America. I traveled to three sundown towns in Kentucky to write a story about how the state’s newspapers blamed Black victims for lynchings. A second story explored how the Black press used photographs of lynchings to shock the world. I was selected to write the introduction of the project along with editor DeNeen Brown.
Education intern
09.06.2021 - 12.31.2021
The Washington Post |
As an education intern, I generated ideas, analyzed data and wrote stories for the local, national education desks. My stories included breaking news, dailies and enterprise stories. *Lack of representation in D.C. schools*: I found that teachers in D.C. are more racially diverse than the national average, but the city’s public and charter schools have struggled to resolve a deficit of Latino teachers and male teachers of color.
The Washington Post |
As an education intern, I generated ideas, analyzed data and wrote stories for the local, national education desks. My stories included breaking news, dailies and enterprise stories. *Lack of representation in D.C. schools*: I found that teachers in D.C. are more racially diverse than the national average, but the city’s public and charter schools have struggled to resolve a deficit of Latino teachers and male teachers of color.
State House reporter
01.03.2022 - 04.29.2022
Capital New Service |
Pitched, wrote and covered stories at the intersection of health and immigration during the 2022 legislative session at the Maryland State House.
Capital New Service |
Pitched, wrote and covered stories at the intersection of health and immigration during the 2022 legislative session at the Maryland State House.
Freelance reporter
10.05.2020 - 05.28.2021
Various publications |
Wrote and pitched stories focusing on immigrant-related issues in publications including The Baltimore Brew, El Tiempo Latino and La Voz Unida.
Various publications |
Wrote and pitched stories focusing on immigrant-related issues in publications including The Baltimore Brew, El Tiempo Latino and La Voz Unida.
Writer, editor, copy editor
02.02.2015 - 06.04.2018
La Máquina de Escribir |
Produced multiplatform content. Edited and copy-edited books and research papers for colleges and art institutions in Ecuador. Worked for a bimonthly magazine and traveled around the country covering stories about Indigenous communities and alternative economies.
La Máquina de Escribir |
Produced multiplatform content. Edited and copy-edited books and research papers for colleges and art institutions in Ecuador. Worked for a bimonthly magazine and traveled around the country covering stories about Indigenous communities and alternative economies.