Ariana Figueroa covers the nation’s capital for States Newsroom. Her coverage areas include congressional policy and politics, with a focus on agriculture, voting rights, immigration, education and labor. Before joining States Newsroom, Ariana covered public health and chemical policy on Capitol Hill for E&E News. As a Florida native, she’s worked for the Miami Herald and her hometown paper, the Tampa Bay Times. Her work has also appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the L.A. Times and NPR.

She is a graduate of the University of Florida. Figueroa was a 2021 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellow with the National Press Foundation.