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Grace Marion is a Platforms Editor at the Los Angeles Times. She was previously a Wire Editor at the Bay City News Group, and a photojournalist and reporter covering government issues and crime for the Mississippi Free Press and, previously, Mississippi Today.

Marion holds a Master’s of Journalism degree from UC Berkeley alongside a bachelor’s degree in editorial and broadcast journalism from the University of Mississippi, where she was a Stamps Foundation Scholar. She focused her education on investigative and international conflict reporting at both universities.

Marion also worked as a researcher on police misconduct accusations for the California Reporting Project and as a graduate teaching assistant for the San Quentin Prison News Project. She also volunteered as a researcher at a Spanish Sociolinguistics lab and as an OSINT researcher covering paramilitary conflicts in South America.

Last Updated: February 20, 2025

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02.20.25

In Taiwan, a Growing Cohort of ‘Preppers’ Readies Itself for an Uncertain Future

Grace Marion
Jenny Huang is practicing cleaning water from the creek near her apartment in Linkou, northwest of Taipei. She pours the water through pantyhouse to filter out sediment, then coffee filters for smaller particles, and finally adds iodine to kill...