With parades, food festivals and cultural documentaries across the five boroughs, there is a way for everyone to celebrate Juneteenth in 2026.
Author Archives: Autumn Vasquez
Autumn Vasquez is a 2026 summer intern for Epicenter NYC and a journalism master’s candidate at New York University. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist based in Jamaica, Queens, by way of Toledo, Ohio. She is a two-time graduate of The University of Toledo and uplifts marginalized voices through her reporting on culture, education, housing, racial justice, and politics. Her work has appeared in Pavement Pieces, NYU Now, UT:10 News, Toledo Free Press, UToledo News, Toledo City Paper, and other local and national publications. When she is not in the newsroom, she can be found sipping an iced coffee at a local coffee shop or catching up on her To Be Read list at a Queens Public Library.
