About Me
Hi there! My name is Grace; I'm a class of 2023 University of Michigan graduate, native Hoosier turned Michigander turned Cincinnatian, daughter to two middle school teachers, former theater kid and longtime writer.
As a melodramatic middle-schooler with a propensity for writing full-length plays on Google Docs, I quickly fell in love with pouring into stories of different cultures to learn about the world beyond the Indiana cornfields in which I grew up. This curiosity led to me majoring in Spanish and International Studies in U-M's Residential College program, where I got to live and learn in a fully-immersive Spanish-speaking community on campus.
I joined the Michigan Daily my freshman year, but the onset of the coronavirus that spring was what propelled me into the world of digital culture reporting. While back home in Indiana, quarantining in my parents' house, I continued reporting for the Daily on the Black Lives Matter protests of summer 2020 and how TikTok was impacting mid-pandemic discourse, among other digital trends.
I've had the opportunity to tap into this rapidly-evolving overlap between journalism and internet culture as a Trending News Reporter at the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Beyond the newsroom, I'm a reality TV fanatic (Love Island USA, Dance Moms and Love is Blind are my favorites) and admittedly spend a good part of my paychecks on iced lattes and concert tickets,
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