RÉsumé
336.287.6447 || gracet086@gmail.com || @GraceTatter
Professional Experience
Independent journalist May 2021-present
Producing podcasts about history and current affairs for national audiences, including at WBUR and a pilot episode for a national magazine.
Reporting stories about health, education and the workforce for outlets including the States Newsroom, Harvard’s Ed. Magazine, and AARP.org
On Point, producer (Boston, Mass.) March 2019-May 2021
· Pitch ideas, book guests, conduct interviews, structure and write scripts and edit sound for On Point, a daily news show distributed by American Public Radio.
Usable Knowledge, staff writer + digital content creator (Cambridge, Mass.) September 2018-March 2019
Write stories connecting education, sociological, psychological, and neurological research to what happens in the nation’s schools for a platform housed in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Stories also regularly republished by KQED’s MindShift.
Freelance (Boston, Mass.) May 2017-September 2018
· Produced episodes of On Point
· Created and distributed monthly newsletter about school desegregation for a Harvard Graduate School of Education research project
· Produced videos using FinalCut Pro to highlight HGSE collaborations with local public schools
· Contributed content for a multimedia project at HGSE on educational ethics
WBUR, news department intern (Boston, Mass.) September-December 2017
· Generated story ideas for the local newscast at Boston’s NPR affiliate
· Reported, wrote and produced cut scripts (using Adobe Audition) for Morning Editionand All Things Considered
Chalkbeat, founding statehouse reporter (Nashville, Tenn.) June 2014-May 2017
· Established new bureau of national non-profit news organization; built up and maintained sources and readers in a new market
· Pitched original story ideas and angles about state education news, and connected Tennessee news to national trends
· Reported breaking news about statewide education policy and trends for Chalkbeat’s website, as well as partner newspapers and radio stations
· Wrote daily morning newsletter overviewing state and national education news
· Completed longer investigative and feature reporting projects, in addition to daily news responsibilities
· Managed content via Wordpress
Campus BluePrint,editor-in-chief (Chapel Hill, N.C.) January 2012-April 2014
· Generated story ideas and edited articles for the University of North Carolina’s monthly progressive issues magazine
· Trained and managed staff of more than 20 student writers
· Started and oversaw Campus BluePrint’s website, and built and managed Wordpress website
The American Lawyer, editorial intern (New York, N.Y.) June-August 2013
· Wrote front-of-the-book articles for monthly magazine covering corporate law with a circulation of 90,000
· Fact-checked magazine features for senior writers
· Pitched, reported and wrote daily news and feature stories for American Lawyer Media’s online news sites
The Daily Tar Heel, staff reporter (Chapel Hill, N.C.) August 2010-April 2013
· Reported daily news stories for the University of North Carolina’s award-winning newspaper, with a focus on the local public schools and city politics
Education
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
M.Ed. from the Graduate School of Education’s Specialized Studies program. 2017-2018.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A. (Honors) in American History. 2010-2014. Phi Beta Kappa.
other Experience
I've also been an associate fiction editor for the Nashville Review, Vanderbilt's literary magazine; an intern at the Southern Oral History Program; a Harvard Graduate School of Education Communications Fellow; and a phone screener at On Point when the show took live callers. My friends and I also recorded a podcast about our favorite childhood books (think: Harriet the Spy; a Wrinkle in Time), called What Happened Next. Ask me about Harriet M. Welsch, literary writing, Southern history, or who actually calls into talk shows!