Elaine Grant is an award-winning audio and print journalist, podcaster, educator and former NPR member station reporter and producer. She is most interested in “wicked problems” affecting society, including healthcare, hunger, and race; she specializes in evocative depictions of the consequences of policies on real people.

Her work has appeared in a wide range of outlets, including The Guardian, NPR and member stations, the Associated Press, The Maine Monitor, Inc. Magazine, AARP The Magazine, US News & World Report, The Boston Globe, Fortune Small Business, CNN/Money, Current, and hundreds of trade magazines. She teaches audio storytelling at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Her podcast, Sound Judgment, won a Silver Signal Award and made Podranker’s 2026 list of Best Journalists Podcasts. Elaine is a recipient of the Colorado Broadcast Association and National Headliner awards for her work at Colorado Public Radio. Her TEDx talk about the Tulsa Race Massacre, The Secrets of Our Shared History, has been viewed almost 130,000 times.