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.