Nina Shapiro is a Seattle Times reporter who writes widely about social issues. Specializing in long-form, deeply reported pieces, she has covered the impact of changing federal policies on immigrants, COVID-19’s toll among Latinos, the legacy of tough-on-crime sentences, and the foster care system’s effect on poor, Black and Native American families. She previously worked as a senior writer at Seattle Weekly, and for publications in New York, New Jersey and southern Africa. A graduate of Wesleyan University, she has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the C.B. Blethen Memorial Award and numerous other local and national honors. She is working on a project about the digital divide in the age of COVID -- a time that much of the world has gone remote.

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