Hi there - good to meet you!
I am a journalist and documentary producer based in sunny Tucson, Arizona.
I cover community resilience, which means the ways local communities deal with systemic issues in this moment, for Arizona Luminaria.
In the past I have been an education reporter for Chalkbeat Chicago and The Arizona Republic, a special projects editor for Migratory Notes newsletter, overseen a team of reporters as an editor at The Moscow Times and served as board president of Borderless magazine.
I’ve produced feature-length documentaries and a pop culture web series for Scrappers Film Group; worked as a fellow with City Bureau, where I won a March 2016 Sidney Hillman award for an investigation into the Chicago police union's misinformation about fatal police shootings; and covered race and poverty issues for the Chicago Reporter.
My freelance journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard and Chicago magazine among others.
I received an MSJ from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
You can find me on Twitter @yanazure or reach me by email at yanakunichoff@gmail.com.