Kimberly Leonard is a politics reporter and author of Florida Playbook, based in Miami. Her coverage focuses on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former President Donald Trump and the future of the conservative movement in the state.

She has extensive experience covering financial disclosures, spending projections, and health care policy.

Kimberly previously worked as a senior Florida politics correspondent for Insider. Before that, she spent a decade covering health care policy in D.C. and has worked for the Washington Examiner, U.S. News & World Report, the Center for Public Integrity and the Huffington Post Investigative Fund.

Kimberly was born in Miami but spent a third of her life in the South of France, where she became bilingual while attending French public school. She received a degree in urban policy from the University of Richmond in Virginia. She lives with her husband and a corgi mix — and loves scuba diving.