Amanda Perez Pintado, Investigate Midwest/Report for America

Pintado covers Illinois’ agriculture businesses and workers for Investigate Midwest. She previously reported on trending topics and local events in south Florida as an intern at the Spanish-language news outlet El Nuevo Herald. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Puerto Rico’s Río Piedras campus and a master’s from New York University. While there, this multimedia reporter covered immigrant voters in the New Hampshire 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, the pandemic and Puerto Rico for Pavement Pieces, an NYU news site. Perez Pintado was editor-in-chief of the student-run publication Latin America News Dispatch, which covers Latin America, the Caribbean and Latinos in the U.S., and in her native Puerto Rico she has reported for El Nuevo Día, the island’s main paper.