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A Massachusetts native, Grace’s first job was working on polls at CBS News. Grace soon moved to Washington D.C., where she worked as a researcher for the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times. 

After returning to school for a master’s degree in journalism at Colombia University, she returned to the LA Times as an intern and freelancer at their Washington bureau before taking a job at the Philadelphia Enquirer covering the courts. 

 In 1994, Grace was hired by The Times-Picayune as a political reporter. She says by far her favorite Louisiana politician is Harry Lee. “He was a giant character,” she says. “He’d say anything." Grace says she vividly remember one of her earliest assignments. “I was covering the nutria problem that was happening in Jefferson Parish,” she says. “At one point I found myself out with the sheriff, in the middle of the night, riding around in a truck shooting giant rats. It was totally surreal.” From Mary Landrieu’s first run for governor, to the beginning and the end of Ray Nagin – Grace has been there, covering it all as Louisiana’s only female political columnist.