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Biography

Selected quotes from me: “I was born in Manchester England. Back then it wasn’t a place many Americans tended to visit unless they’d got lost on the way to Scotland.” "When I was seven, I interrogated my father as to why the English were still in Northern Ireland when we obviously weren't wanted there. I refused to accept his answers of ‘it's complicated.’ After two hours, he left the room.” “I arrived in the US as a foreign exchange student in 1988. American history and culture were not taught within the snobbery of an expensive English private-school classroom so the lesson on the American Revolution went something like this: ‘Oh and by the way in 1776, we lost the colonies.’ So when the exchange company asked me where I wanted to live, I picked the three places I’d seen on television- New York, Los Angeles and Miami (Vice). They gave my requests serious consideration and sent me to New Albany, Indiana.” "I will always remember watching Bernard Shaw hunkered down in an Iraqi basement in 1990. I was burning with jealousy. So, a decade or so later, I joined Fox News as a film-critic. The response I received when I suggested anthropologists study Vin Diesel in a petri-dish was as close to the threat of aerial bombardment as I thought I could get.” "As a journalist, whether on an investigative assignment or uncovering aspects of a story covering an event one must always go beyond due diligence. For me, the thrill of the hunt has become more of an addiction." “Being a fundraiser for 15-years helped make me a better journalist. It takes a great deal of fastidious research, data mining, dispassionate objectivity, understanding of historical causation, usage of astute sources and substantial quotes to convince a conservative foundation in Indianapolis to fund a production of ‘Naked Boys Singing'.” "I am a multi-award-winning senior staff writer for Windy City Times (WCT) an LGBTQ publication based in Chicago—a role I took on my after leaving the comparatively benign world of arts, educational and social justice fundraising. Within two years, I achieved the kind of acknowledgement from the mainstream journalism community WCT has only received three other times in its thirty-year history." “In 2014, I completed a four-part investigation into the arrest and imprisonment of a Black transgender woman named Eisha Love and the subsequent murders of two women immediately following the incident. I worked entirely alone and uncovered a connectivity between all three cases as well as slipshod investigations by the Chicago Police Department (CPD). As a result of the stories, Love has retained a top attorney. After nearly four-years in the Cook County Jail she could be released as early as this fall. It’s not very often one can say a story changed a life that profoundly.” For more information visit www.gretchenrachelhammond.com

Content

Total articles 326

• Available on paid plans

  311 service requests as indicators of neighborhood distress and opioid use disorder

  By Yuchen Li, Lauren T. Southerland, Gretchen Hammond, Ayaz Hyder

  Nov. 11, 2020

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  To the DC Dyke March organizers

  By Gretchen Hammond

  Jun. 07, 2019

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  Update on Guardians from Hell.

  By Gretchen Hammond

  Jul. 08, 2018

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