Grace Griffin is a digital producer for Here & Now. She writes and edits articles for hereandnow.org, helps manage the show's Facebook, Instagram and TikTok accounts, works with the podcast team on Here & Now Anytime, and occasionally produces segments for broadcast.
She's produced conversations with Chappell Roan ahead of her debut album release and French pop star Yseult on performing at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
She's interviewed punk band Pinkshift about centering societal rage in love for humanity, delved into the elusive world of celebrity ghostwriters, unpacked Amazon Ring's decade-long work with police, and examined the implications of legal cases playing out on reality TV.
Before joining Here & Now, she worked as a digital producer for a number of Gannett-owned local newspapers and The Boston Globe’s metro, living/arts and cannabis sections.
Grace lives in Boston and graduated from Emerson College in 2020 with a degree in journalism, art history and gender studies.
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Punk band Pinkshift loves the world enough to want to change it
The band put out its second full-length album in August, called “Earthkeeper.” It follows a long tradition of punk musicians using music as a form of resistance.
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