Swanny Vargas Laureano is a Popular Democratic Party (Partido Popular Democrático) member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, serving at large. Vargas Laureano was elected in November 2024 and took office in January 2025, holding one of the three at-large House seats won by the party. In the party’s June 2024 primary for at-large House nominees, Vargas Laureano finished second with about 21 percent of the vote, and went on to be the only woman on the party’s at-large House slate.1
Vargas Laureano was born in Arecibo in 1995 and grew up in Barceloneta. Vargas Laureano holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico and has pursued a master’s degree in political communication and crisis management at Nebrija University in Madrid. From 2015 to 2017 Vargas Laureano worked as a legislative committee aide, then spent 2017 to 2021 as an insurance adjuster handling claims from Hurricanes Irma and María and from the earthquakes that later struck the island. In 2021 Vargas Laureano returned to the House as a special aide to the chamber’s first vice president. Within the party, Vargas Laureano joined the national youth organization at 19, served as a regional vice president for the Arecibo area, and was later elected president of the party’s youth wing.
In the House, Vargas Laureano sits on committees that include Youth Affairs; Agriculture; Banking, Insurance and Commerce; and Tourism, as well as the commissions that run the Ramos Comas and Córdova Fernós legislative internship programs. Legislative priorities have included agriculture, health care, special education and youth employment.
