Vince Vasquez is the Senior Policy Analyst with the National University System Institute for Policy Research. He works on a wide variety of local and regional policy issues, including education, government finance, telecommunications, urban life, poverty, and the Latino community.
Mr. Vasquez’s opinion pieces have appeared in many publications, including the Wall Street Journal, San Diego Union-Tribune, San Francisco Examiner, Silicon Valley-San Jose Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Liberty Magazine. He has also given extensive media interviews, including CNN, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, Investor’s Business Daily, New York Sun, local television news, and numerous local and national radio show programs. Mr. Vasquez is an adjunct scholar with the Cascade Policy Institute, a free-market think tank in Portland, Oregon.
Prior to joining the National University System Institute for Policy Research, Mr. Vasquez worked at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI), a free-market think tank based in San Francisco. While at PRI, Mr. Vasquez authored Digital Welfare: The Failure of the Universal Service System, a study on the Universal Service Fund. He has co-authored numerous policy papers, including Wi-Fi Waste: The Disaster of Municipal Communications Networks, Upgrading America’s Ballot Box: The Rise of E-Voting, and Cutting the Cord: Streamlining the Video Franchising Process. He also worked at the Leadership Institute, a non-profit educational foundation in Arlington, Virginia.
Mr. Vasquez received a B.A. in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). While at UCSD, he served as editor-in-chief of the California Review, a conservative journal.