Grace Benninghoff is a freelance audio and print journalist based in Oregon and Maine whose work has been featured on NPR and in Texas Monthly, Portland Press Herald and VTDigger.

She has won awards for her coverage of homelessness, gun violence and reproductive health.

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My reporting has taken me into skull-numbing waves in Queens, N.Y. for a story on big-city surfing, and to the headquarters of Indian Health Services in Pine Ridge, South Dakota to investigate maternal health care. It’s taken me to the crowded funerals of mass shooting victims in central Maine, brought me to homeless encampments in sub-zero temperatures, and found me in the pale pink lobby of a New Mexico abortion clinic weeks after Roe v. Wade was overturned.

I am passionate about telling the stories of communities that often don’t see their experiences reflected in the headlines, and I’ll go wherever is necessary to tell those stories.

I accept freelance work in New England, on the west coast, and anywhere in between.