Tina Griego

Tina is an editor, reporter and coach with the Colorado News Collaborative. She has been a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and the Albuquerque Tribune, but spent most of her career as a reporter and columnist for the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post. Her reporting on immigration, education and urban poverty has won national recognition. Tina lives in Fort Collins with her husband and two kids. She's a native New Mexican and prefers red over green.

Bright Lights in Dark Times

Jul 16, 2020

Dear reader, Our apologies for our recent radio silence. Our new project launch with COLab (the Colorado News Collaborative) has us gathering string and casting nets and mining veins, basically all the metaphors

Standing Aside to Let People Speak for Themselves

Jun 26, 2020

A note about Thursday’s DACA story

With Thursday’s Supreme Court Ruling on DACA Comes More Time, But No Less Uncertainty

Jun 18, 2020

Five DACA recipients talk about their long, rocky path toward a future as Americans

At nearly every turn in Denver, protesters confront a reason to march

Jun 11, 2020

The marches open a window to institutional racism and the specific ways it has shaped the city

COVID Diaries Colorado: A Westside Pastor Still Holding Services — 10 People at a Time

Apr 28, 2020

About this story: On Thursday, April 16, twenty-two Colorado news organizations sought to capture a snapshot in the day of residents from all walks of life during the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID Diaries Colorado: For DACA Recipient, Pandemic Brings Uncertainty on Top of Uncertainty

Apr 27, 2020

Marissa Molina awakened at 7:42 a.m. on the 41st day sequestered at home as she does many mornings now — panicked. It is the isolation. Her construction-worker dad’s furlough. Her