Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, a prominent human rights lawyer and senior counsel at LatinoJustice Puerto Rican Legal Defense & Education Fund, has admitted to Prism's Tina Vásquez that she has been lying about her heritage for years and is in fact white. In a lengthy feature story, Vásquez reveals that Bannan has spent years taking positions, scholarships, internships and more by falsely claiming she was Latina. “I am racially white, and have always said that. However my cultural identity was formed as a result of my family, both chosen and chosen for me, and that has always been Latinx. My identity is my most authentic expression of who I am and how I pay honor to the people who have formed me since I was a child,” Bannan told Vásquez when confronted about concerns that she was misrepresenting her heritage. She refused to answer questions about whether it was right for her to have taken so many opportunities from actual Latinx people. “My biological origins are Italian, atheist...