Jinitzail Hernández

Jinitzail Hernández was a video journalist at The Texas Tribune from May 2022 through November 2023. She is interested in using video to tell immersive stories through the lives of the people affected by policy. Jini previously worked as the senior multimedia producer at CQ Roll Call in Washington, D.C., where she covered defense policy and politics through articles, podcasts and videos. Jini has also worked in Jerusalem as a press and policy fellow at The Media Line, a nonprofit American news agency. She graduated with a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University and was awarded the Deborah Orin Scholarship from the White House Correspondents’ Association.