
Tracy Grant
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Tracy Grant is a senior editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. She previously served as Britannica's editor in chief, the first woman to hold that title.
Before joining Britannica, Grant had a distinguished career at The Washington Post, holding several editorial positions, including the newspaper’s first Web editor, and finishing her tenure there as managing editor for staff development and standards.
Grant is a regular speaker at journalism conferences. Her television appearances have included NBC and PBS. She began her journalism career in Florida where she worked as an editor at the Miami Herald. She is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
photo: Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post
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On the afternoon of March 12, 2025, Kilmar Abrego Garcia had just finished a shift as an apprentice sheet-metal worker and had his five-year-old son strapped in a car seat in the back of his car. When the 29-year-old Salvadoran national, who had entered the United States illegally in 2012 when he…
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