Alex Arriaga is the audience engagement editor at New York Focus, where she leads the organization's strategy to reach audiences throughout the state. She was previously an engagement reporter at The Marshall Project, where she reported on prisons and jails with a specialization in reaching incarcerated people and those most impacted by the criminal justice system. Before coming to New York, she worked as a local reporter in Chicago with City Bureau and the Chicago Sun-Times, mostly writing about local elections and immigrant communities.