Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero is a Murrow News Fellow with the Washington State Standard. She has previously covered the state legislature in 2024 as an intern with The Seattle Times and has also interned in Samoa at the Samoa Observer and at The News Tribune and WA Latino News covering Latino issues in Washington state. She was one of five students nationwide chosen to be a part of ProPublica's Class of 2023 Emerging Reporters and most recently graduated from the University of Washington in August 2024. Washington State Standard is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.