Traci Grant

Traci Grant has been a general assignment reporter for NBC Bay Area News since she joined the company in June of 2002.  Her reports air on NBC Bay Area News at 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. weeknights.

When Traci was six years old she watched the news with her family, pointed to the television and said, "That's what I want to be when I grow up."  Her youth was spent preparing for her journalism career – she was the editor of the school paper, the person who read the school’s morning announcements and she worked during the summers at the local public television station.

Traci's career has taken that same path, zig-zagging from print to broadcast journalism. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Evanston and worked for The Boston Globe.  But then she returned to her true passion, television, and went to work for television stations in Boston, Augusta, Georgia, Hartford, Connecticut and Orlando, Florida.

Traci is a past recipient of a Benjamin Fine award for education reporting and has won three Emmy nominations for Hard News Features.  She considers herself incredibly fortunate because her job allows her to see things that many do not have the chance to see and meet the people who many do not have the opportunity to meet.

During her time away from reporting, Traci enjoys TiVo, live theater and volunteering for San Francisco's Lighthouse for the Blind.  Her favorite books are "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith and "Bridget Jones's Diary."  She adores the movies Shawshank Redemption and When Harry Met Sally and has watched each Star Wars film many times over. Traci also loves anything with Hugh Grant in it, no matter how sappy.

Traci has been a member of the National Association of Black Journalists for more than a decade.