Co-Founder, Chief Development and Partnerships Officer

Kevin Douglas Grant

Kevin Douglas Grant is the outgoing Chief Development and Partnerships Officer at The GroundTruth Project, building revenue-generating partnerships in support of Report for America and Report for the World.

Previously Senior Editor of Special Reports at GlobalPost, he has led reporting projects around the world and his work has been recognized by the Edward R. Murrow, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University and Online Journalism Awards among others. Over the last 10 years, he has helped to support more than 300 reporting fellows producing in-depth work on social justice issues in more than 50 countries.

Grant is a recent graduate of the Media Transformation Challenge at Poynter, and is presently working on a project about religious leaders worldwide as a journalism fellow at USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture.

He holds an M.A. in Digital Journalism from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School, where he was a Dean’s Scholar and the founding Executive Editor of Annenberg’s pioneering news organization Neon Tommy. Grant is also the former Operations Director of semantic news aggregator Inform.com.

Grant is currently based in Washington, D.C., where he serves as a capstone adviser and adjunct professor of journalism at Georgetown University.

A student writes on the blackboard at the Zabuli School in Deh-Subz, Afghanistan. (Beth Murphy/GroundTruth Films)

Middle East

Film premiere 10/31: Inside one girls’ school in war-torn Afghanistan

In Afghanistan today, there is no social issue more controversial than women’s rights. And nothing cuts to the...

Oct 27, 2016

67 people were killed and at least 175 were injured during the mass shooting at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sept. 21, 2013. The attack was carried out by Al-Shabaab, a Jihadist militant group whose name translates to "the youngsters." (Photo by Anne Knight/Wikimedia Commons)

Africa

Troubled by corruption and terror attacks, young Kenyans lose faith in government

NAIROBI — A father and his young son had just stepped into Savani’s bookshop to browse some toys...

Sep 21, 2016

A young female refugee sits up in bed in France, 1940. (Photo by Martha Sharp/Sharp Family Archives)

Faith

Unitarians see hope in Holocaust rescue film

Artemis Joukowsky was a high school freshman working on a class assignment in 1976, when his mother shared...

Sep 20, 2016

Rights

The faces and voices of youth working a tough global economy

The global youth unemployment rate has hit a level near its all-time high, according to new data from the...

Sep 02, 2016

GroundTruth Fellow Mohammed Abdelfattah interviews an attendee of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Jenny Montasir/GroundTruth)

Fellowships

Meet five of the 15,000 journalists covering the conventions

Among an estimated 15,000 journalists covering the Republican and Democratic National Conventions this month, GroundTruth reporting fellows –...

Jul 28, 2016

Announcements

GroundTruth wins a National Edward R. Murrow Award

The longest war in American history was supposed to be over by now, but for the soldiers fighting it and...

Jun 21, 2016

Democracy

Collision: New Orleans a hotspot for ‘Third Wave’ of innovation

NEW ORLEANS — After two torrid years where on-demand service providers like Uber and Airbnb reached billion-dollar valuations...

May 12, 2016

Announcements

Relaunching YouthVoices: What we learned and what’s coming next

The project began with two simple questions: What is your dream job? What’s standing in your way? Since...

May 12, 2016

War and Peace

Live at Collision: New space race targets Mars, the Moon … and Earth

NEW ORLEANS — The day after Elon Musk’s private space exploration company announced plans for its first mission to...

Apr 29, 2016

Media Industry

Live at Collision: Finding humanity in a virtual reality resurgence

NEW ORLEANS — Patients recovering from strokes at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine virtually inhabit the...

Apr 27, 2016

Environment

Telling of danger at home, island nations gain support for 1.5 degree warming target

LE BOURGET, France — With at least two days of around-the-clock negotiations left to go, a draft climate...

Dec 09, 2015

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