Marina Bolotnikova
Deputy Editor, Future Perfect
Marina Bolotnikova is an editor 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 edits staff writers and oversees Future Perfect’s freelance contributions, and 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 [email protected], and find her on Twitter at @mbolotnikova.
Latest articles by Marina Bolotnikova
It’s a big deal for the climate — and for the coffee industry at large.
In Sonoma County and Denver, activists are putting animal welfare on the ballot.
The fight against the meat industry has been rocky. Can it be won?
The long, maddening, glorious, vital fight against factory farming.
House Republicans are working to make America’s factory farms even crueler.
Obesity will go down, electric cars will go up, and a nuclear bomb might just fall.
The delightful abundance of going vegan.
How industrial meat and dairy trap us in an infectious disease cycle.
They’re great for the fast food industry — but not so great for us.
Factory farms are now so big that we need a new word for them.