Ms. Jiménez grew up in the Bronx, but she would spend summers in the Dominican Republic with her father. After high school, she moved to Florida.

“I had to get rid of a lot of accents,” Ms. Jiménez said. “And there was always this feeling that you never fully belonged anywhere.”

It took Ms. Jiménez a long time to love her identity, and it wasn’t until six years ago that she realized that her background was valuable.

“It is my family that is on the line here,” she said. “It’s my community that is being attacked. So this all feels very, very personal every day.”

She learned early on in politics that there would often be only a few Latinos in the room.

“It can be very lonely, especially when you start working in these spaces,” she said. “But you figure out quickly that your voice is important, and if you don’t speak up, that perspective will never be heard.”

But speaking up is essential, Ms. Jiménez said, particularly given the stakes of the 2020 race.

“Trump is using our community to win re-election. He’s demonizing us,” she said. “And because this election is about us, we have to prioritize, as a community, someone who can defeat this man.”

She believes former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will fight for Latinos, and she says he has been reflective over the millions of deportations that happened under the Obama administration. She pointed to his immigration plan as evidence.