Announcement from Features Executive Editor Ben Williams, Deputy Features Editor Mitch Rubin, and Assignment Editor Steve Kolowich:
We are excited to announce that Jesús Rodríguez will be joining The Washington Post as a political reporter in Style.
Jesús comes to us from Politico Magazine, where he wrote features about politics and law as a staff writer, including on Democrats’ legal strategy against election denialism, the country’s only mobile vasectomy clinic in post-Roe Missouri and George Santos’s life in Congress. Previously, he was a contributing editor there.
Jesús, who is originally from Maracaibo, Venezuela, has a bachelor’s degree in international politics and a law degree from Georgetown University. He resides in Washington.
His first day will be March 20. Please join us in welcoming him to The Post.