Before that she was with KUOW Public Radio covering immigration. During her time she profiled the Latino vote leading up to the 2020 election, earning a first place Public Media Journalism Award for nationally edited news coverage. Jimenez has also reported from dozens of protests for racial justice after the killing of George Floyd.
In 2021 she was an investigative fellow with Reveal & The Center for Investigative Reporting, publishing a story on the detention of immigrant youth at a secret detention center. Jimenez has also been a fellow with ProPublica’s Data Institute and NPR’s Next Generation Radio program. Her work has appeared with NPR, High Country News, Here and Now, 1A, The World, and other publications both online and on air. She is the founder of Periodistas Northwest, a chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and a member of IRE/NICAR.
Jimenez was born in Mexico and raised in rural Central Washington where she first started her career as a correspondent covering tribal issues, wildfires, and farmworkers. She is a first generation high school and college graduate, as well as a DACA recipient. Before entering the world of journalism, she was (briefly) an Alaskan farmhand, state park aide, and barista.