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Jose Antonio Vargas is a reporter for the Washington Post, where he covers the intersection of politics and the Internet. Previously, he wrote about video game culture and race and demographics, among other topics, and his 2006 series on HIV/AIDS in Washington is now the subject of The Other City, a feature-length documentary film slated for release in 2010. He won a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team that covered the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech. He's also written for the Philadelphia Daily News and the San Francisco Chronicle, and has appeared on CNN, MSNBC and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He once taught a class called "Storytelling 2.0" at Georgetown University and currently sits on the advisory board for the Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism, housed at American University. He writes an online column, The Clickocracy, which he describes as "one nation under Google, with video and e-mail for all." A very proud alumnus of Mountain View High School ('00) and San Francisco State University ('04), he loves jazz, can't get enough of Ben & Jerry's and worships at the altars of Altman, Almodovar, Didion, Baldwin and Orwell. He lives in Washington, D.C. |