I'm Samantha, but call me Sam. I'm a journalist from Austin, Texas. I grew up in the suburbs and graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. I co-own Discourse Blog, an independent, worker-owned website about politics and culture on the left, which my colleagues and I launched in the early weeks of March 2020. Not only do I write for the blog, but I’m our art director, and I edit our podcasts, too.

During the pandemic I also helped launched and staff wrote for Subtext, a politics and activism newsletter by AJ+. Previously I was a staff writer at the now-shuttered politics website Splinter (RIP). Before that, I was an identity and immigration staff writer at the Daily Dot, where I reported on the intersections of racism, sexism, politics, and the internet. My bylines include Vox, Texas Observer, Los Angeles Magazine, Death & Taxes, Revelist, Texts From Last Night, Austin Monthly, and Texas Monthly.

I like breakfast tacos, accumulating books, and traveling.

Follow me on Twitter or email me at samjgrasso [at] gmail [dot] com.