Garnet Henderson is a journalist and choreographer. She was born and raised in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and has lived in New York City since 2009.
She is currently the Senior Multiplatform Reporter at Rewire News Group, focusing on in-depth features and investigations on the reproductive and sexual health beat.
Previously, Garnet was a freelance reporter for more than a decade, writing on the intersections of health and culture with a particular focus on abortion access. Her work has been published in ELLE, Scientific American, Marie Claire, VICE, The Guardian, WIRED, Glamour, Quartz, The Atlantic, and more. She is also the creator, host, producer of ACCESS: A Podcast About Abortion, a show that challenges dominant media narratives related to abortion through first-person stories and expert perspectives.
Garnet’s reporting has been recognized with numerous grants and awards. Her guide to abortion care in the U.S. was part of the Tonic “Guide to Healthcare,” which won a 2018 Deadline Club Award. In 2023, her exclusive feature on the nation’s first fleet of mobile abortion clinics, along with Cosmopolitan’s other post-Dobbs abortion coverage, won a National Headliner Award. She is also a four-time grantee and fellow of the International Women's Media Foundation, for projects including an investigation into one West Virginia woman’s story of being denied an abortion that was co-published in The Nation and on ACCESS; a three-part series on how the Christian nationalist takeover of government in Idaho created a reproductive health crisis; and reporting trips to the Dominican Republic and Brazil.
Alongside her journalism career, Garnet has maintained a career as a dancer and choreographer. Her work has been presented at the Flea Theater, HERE Arts Center, the 92nd Street Y, the West End Theater, Arts on Site, Triskelion Arts, Gibney Dance, and other venues. She was a Women in Motion 2017-2018 Commissioned Artist, and in 2022 became one of the first recipients of the UMEZ Mertz Gilmore Seed Fund for Dance grant for her full-length project SOLACE.
Garnet has also performed in works by Mark Dendy, Jordan Morley, Faye Driscoll, Ori Flomin, Kyle Abraham, David Parker, Larry Keigwin, Reggie Wilson, Colleen Thomas, and Heidi Henderson, and appears in the feature film Shirley, directed by Josephine Decker and choreographed by Faye Driscoll. Combining both her passions, she has been a contributing writer at Dance Magazine for over a decade.
A lifelong interest in movement and the body also led Garnet to become an NASM-certified personal trainer and to pursue numerous additional credentials in corrective exercise, prenatal and postpartum fitness and recovery, nutrition, functional anatomy, and more. As a trainer, she has worked with clients of all ages and backgrounds, with a body-neutral approach and a special focus on prenatal and postpartum clients and those managing chronic illness or injury. Though she no longer works as a trainer, this experience continues to inform Garnet's reporting on fitness, rehabilitative medicine, health equity, and reproductive health.
Garnet is also a proud labor organizer in the fields of journalism and dance. As a member of Dance Artists’ National Collective, where she served as Advocacy Coordinator, she co-organized policy campaigns for the New York Health Act, the PRO Act, and a New York WPA. She is also a member-organizer with Freelance Solidarity Project/National Writers Union and a member of the Washington-Baltimore News Guild.