Marina Bolotnikova

Senior Reporter, Future Perfect

Marina Bolotnikova is a senior reporter for Vox’s Future Perfect, a section covering the world’s big moral and technological problems, from global poverty and inequality to pandemics to factory farming. She co-writes Processing Meat, Vox’s biweekly newsletter exploring how the meat and dairy industries shape our politics, culture, environment, and more — sign up here!

Previously, Marina was a freelance reporter focusing on factory farming and the criminalization of animal rights activists. She’s contributed to the Guardian, the Intercept, the New York Times, and lots of other outlets. In 2022, she was awarded the University of Denver Animal Law Program’s Sunlight Award for her reporting on the meat industry. In 2023, she was awarded the National Press Club’s Ann Cottrell Free Animal Reporting award for her coverage of the poultry industry’s gruesome mass killings of birds during avian flu. You can view some of her past work here.

From 2015 to 2021, Marina was an editor for Harvard Magazine, where she wrote and edited stories about academic research, ideas, the politics of higher education, and more. And before that, she was an editorial writer for the Toledo Blade.

Get in touch with Marina at marina.bolotnikova@vox.com, and find her on Twitter at @mbolotnikova.