My name is Grace Elizabeth Cady and I recently graduated from Marquette University with a bachelor’s of arts in journalism and political science.
I am very excited to be a summer reporting fellow with NNS and to help bring Milwaukee the news that it deserves.
I live in Delafield, Wisconsin, but have spent most of my journalistic career reporting in Milwaukee – a city with so much to love and so much to speak about.
I first joined the Marquette Tribune, (Marquette’s student-run news site) when I was a sophomore in college and worked as an opinions columnist because it was the only open position.
But I soon came to find that it would help me find my voice.
Most of my columns centered around mental health, women’s rights, politics and human fragility.
After my time as a columnist, I went on to do news reporting and then spent my senior year as the managing editor of the Marquette Journal, where I produced two semesterly magazines titled, “Written in the Stars” and “Playing With Fire,” respectively.
Outside of my student media experience, I have worked as an intern at Milwaukee Magazine, the National Federation of Federal Employees labor union and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, over the last two years.
At Milwaukee Mag, I was an editorial intern and wrote event guides such as “How to Make the Most of Bronzeville Week.”
While spending a semester as a Les Aspinite through Marquette University’s political science department in Washington, D.C., I was the communications intern with the National Federation of Federal Employees, or NFFE.
As an intern for NFFE, I penned letters to Congress, updated the union’s website with relevant news stories and even spent a week speaking with United States Forest Service members about unsafe working conditions.
Last summer, I was a features intern at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, working under editor Jim Higgins to profile individuals such as Emily Igwike, Milwaukee’s first youth poet laureate, and Lion’s Tooth bookstore owners who aim to create an inclusive, queer-friendly environment in their store.
My educational experiences at Marquette included social justice reporting at Milwaukee’s Brown Street Academy to uncover the effectiveness of food insecurity solutions, such as the FoodRight initiative.
I am also an O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism intern.
My fellow, Lindsay Muscato, and reporting partner, Julia Abuzzahab, are working alongside me to finish the publication of our longform piece on how industrial forces are intruding on the environmental and economic stability of the Finger Lakes community in upstate New York.
This story can be found in Outrider Magazine once editing is completed over this summer.
I am eager to take all that I have learned thus far, to serve the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service’s readers by working toward thoughtful storytelling in an effective manner with good intentions.
There is more than just one story to Milwaukee; more than just one story to be told about Milwaukee.
I look forward to helping people’s voices be heard, their stories be told and for transparency to be at the forefront of my reporting.
You can reach me at graceelizabethcady@gmail.com
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