Cecilia Vega is an Emmy award-winning ABC News journalist and the Chief White House Correspondent. Her work can be observed on all ABC News platforms, including “Good Morning America,” “World News Tonight with David Muir,” “Nightline” and “20/20.”

Cecilia has covered President Donald Trump since his very initial press conference after winning the 2016 election. Since then, she has had a front-row place to a presidency unlike any other, pressing the administration on everything from Russia to immigration.

She has been an important member of ABC’s politics team, covering some of the most significant moments of our time, including two Supreme Court nominations, the firing of FBI Director James Comey, the Mueller report, a presidential impeachment, and all features of the president’s reelection campaign, including discussions, conventions, election night and the aftermath.

Her coverage of the administration’s family separation policy and handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to her one-on-one exchanges with President Trump, has directed to some of the most defining significances of the administration.

Before she covered President Trump, Cecilia logged more than 239,000 miles and consumed more than 500 days on the campaign way covering Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential effort, while also anchoring the Saturday edition of “World News Tonight.” She also reported on the reelection and inauguration of President Barack Obama.

As Chief White House Correspondent, Cecilia will continue her position as a reporter for ABC News.

Cecilia first joined ABC News in 2011 as a correspondent based in Los Angeles.

Her duties have taken her around the world reporting on important moments in history such as a papal conclave and the Olympics. In the wake of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan,

Cecilia flew to the disaster zone, suiting up and going inside the radioactive power plant — twice. She took a submarine to the bottom of the Arctic and touched whales in the Sea of Cortez. She’s interviewed everyone from stars to world leaders.

Before joining ABC News, Cecilia was an Emmy-winning journalist for ABC’s KGO-TV in San Francisco. And earlier to transitioning to broadcast news, Cecilia made her mark as an award-winning print reporter, most recently at The San Francisco Chronicle.

Cecilia is a San Francisco Bay Area native. She and her husband, Ricardo, reside in Washington with their rambunctious Boston Terrier, Jalisco.

Cecilia Vega Shares her Story being chief White House correspondent:

Vega can be viewed on ABC’s Good Morning America and World News Tonight with David Muir holding truth to power and shining her own path along the way.

This is true as Cecilia Vega takes on her current position as chief White House correspondent for ABC News.

“It still hasn’t really sunk in to be honest. I think my real takeaway is it’s great to be the first you just can’t be the last,” Cecilia Vega said ABC7 News Race and Culture Reporter Julian Glover.

Cecilia Vega is the first Latina named chief White House correspondent of an English language network.

Her appointment issues at a period when women lead White House coverage for several of the nation’s largest news outlets including ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and PBS.

While it may appear like a glitzy headline it’s a game-changer for representation.

“There are a lot of times I can remember in the last four years in this White House looking around the briefing room, feeling like the only. I just hope that that’s one of the last times that anybody covering the White House has to feel that way,” Cecilia Vega stated.

She remembers a photo snapped by a White House press corps photographer from inside the briefing room displaying a sea of black and brown loafers (the D.C. uniform as she calls it), animated by a pair of blue and red heels.

Those were her heels working as a symbolic nod to the barriers she continues to bust.

Vega told while she is not always conscious of her being the only Latina woman in the press corps, at times it is brought into focus when she’s covering a subject matter especially close to home like the effect of family divisions at the border.

“I kept thinking, what’s my mom back home in Oakland thinking? What would she want to know?” said Vega. “My family never would have expected anyone in our family to end up working at the White House, what an example of the American dream. To have the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants working at the White House.“

Vega was born and brought up in the Bay Area and comes from a family of blue-collar workers.

She wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle prior.

“When I got that job at the Chronicle I thought ‘man I made it to the big leagues!’ I did make it to the big leagues. Same with ABC7 we grew up watching ABC7,” she said.

One of the stories she recalls most during her time covering news in the Bay Area is the killing of Oscar Grant by BART police.

Since being bumped up to the network Vega has covered everything from the papal conclave, the Olympics, the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan to every move of the Trump administration from the former president’s first press conference after winning the 2016 election.

Before reporting the Trump administration, she logged more than 239,000 miles and spent more than 500 days on the campaign trail covering Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid, while also anchoring the Saturday edition of “World News Tonight.”

“I will say the job is nuts. I lived out of a suitcase for a year and a half on the campaign trail, and then rolled into D.C. and it was crazy from day one of the Trump administration until the very last day of it,” she said.

She believes a lot of coffee makes it work this way since she takes about five hours of sleep a night on her frenetic schedule.

In fact, it’s one of the items Vega misses most about the Bay Area aside from her family: Philz Coffee.

She now resides in D.C. with her husband Ricardo and Boston Terrier Jalisco, but she’s oftentimes in New York anchoring GMA.

As she plans for what the next four years will bring as chief White House correspondent, she wishes she’s motivating the next generation of young journalists.

She acknowledges ABC News legends Diane Sawyer and Martha Raddatz by giving her help and direction to assist her to achieve this newest accomplishment.

She has these words of wisdom for the next generation: “Dream big. I mean this with all of my heart, If I can end up here you can end up right here too. And you should,” stated Vega.