ACCESS: Rebecca Grant in conversation with Zoë Carpenter

Rebecca Grant is a freelance journalist based in Portland, Oregon, who covers reproductive rights, health, and justice. Her work has appeared in NPR, New York magazine, The Atlantic, VICE, The Nation, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, HuffPost, and The Guardian, among other publications. She has received grants and fellowships from the International Women’s Media Foundation, the International Reporting Project, The Fund for Investigative Journalists, and Type Investigations, reporting stories around the US and the world. Rebecca studied English and art history at Cornell University and served in the Peace Corps in Thailand. Before full-time freelancing, she worked at Washingtonian Magazine and wrote about startups in San Francisco. She is the author of Birth and Access.

Zoë Carpenter is a journalist and fiction writer from Oregon. Her writing has been published in Rolling Stone, The Nation, Guernica, Narratively, and elsewhere. A recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, she has also received grants and fellowships from the Pulitzer Center, the Catwalk Art Institute, PLAYA, and Yaddo. She has an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she was a postgraduate Zell Fellow. Prior to that she was an editor at The Nation, where she worked on reported features, investigations, and opinion pieces for print and online.