About me
Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero is a multimedia journalist who specializes in writing and photography. She is passionate about creating stories that spark conversations and inform readers. Through her reporting she hopes to empower underrepresented communities through human-interest storytelling.
Her work has been featured in The Seattle Times, Samoa Observer, The News Tribune, South Seattle Emerald, WA Latino News, International Examiner, Capitol Hill Seattle, and The Daily of the University of Washington. This year, she was one of five students chosen to be a part of ProPublica's 2023 Class of Emerging Reporters.
Jacquelyn is a recent graduate from the University of Washington where she majored in Journalism and Law, Societies & Justice with minors in Diversity and Environmental Studies.
My story
Jacquelyn's introduction to journalism began she filmed a documentary about her life as high school senior going into college during the COVID-19 pandemic with Cascade PBS. The documentary "Senior Year Was Crazy" ended up being nominated for a Regional Emmy.
Working on this documentary, sparked her interest in journalism as she began to see how storytelling could be used as a way of creating change and uplifting underrepresented communities.
Her first article was published in May 2022 and two years later she's interned in local, statewide, and national newsrooms.
