Tanzina Vega is CNNMoney's national reporter for race and inequality in America. Prior to working at CNN, Vega was a staff reporter for The New York Times where she created and covered a beat on race and ethnicity for the national desk, reported on digital media and advertising for the business desk and covered the New York City courts for the metro section.NPR's Code Switch included Vega in their "Journalists — Of Color! — To Watch In 2014" list and The Huffington Post listed her as one on of the 40 top Latinos in American media. Vega is also a skilled multimedia producer and has won various awards for her multimedia work, including being part of the Emmy-winning team that produced One in 8 Million in addition to awards from the National Press Photographers Association.

Vega has a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York at StonyBrook and a Master's in Multimedia Journalism from the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism where she graduated with honors. As a reporter she tends to appeal more towards logos and pathos since because her main focus is race and inequality which can be a very touchy subject in America.