Vanessa de la Torre

Vanessa de la Torre is Chief Content Officer at Connecticut Public Broadcasting and oversees the New England News Collaborative, a regional hub of nine public media stations sharing news, ideas and a united mission to inform and empower our communities through journalism. Previously, Vanessa was a reporter for Connecticut Public and the public radio collaborative Sharing America, covering issues of race, identity and culture. Before joining the public media world, Vanessa wrote for newspapers such as the Hartford Courant, where her investigative storytelling on Hartford education won regional and national awards. She also was part of the Courant team that was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting. Vanessa grew up in El Centro, Calif., a desert town near the U.S.-Mexico border, and is a graduate of Princeton University. She received her master's degree from Stanford University’s Graduate Program in Journalism.