Katia SavchukHow $1,000 a Month in Guaranteed Income Helped One Mother Move Into a Home of her OwnElsie McCoy was one of 20 low-income Black mothers to participate in the Magnolia Mother’s Trust year-long basic income pilot.·8 min read·Oct 1, 2020--3--3
Katia SavchukHow a Single Mother of 4 in Jackson, Mississippi, Spent $1,000 a Month in Guaranteed IncomeArlene Nichols was one of 20 low-income Black mothers to participate in the Magnolia Mother’s Trust year-long basic income pilot.·6 min read·Oct 1, 2020--2--2
Katia SavchukinBRIGHT MagazineThis Thai Prison Director Spent Her Nest Egg To Help Ex-Inmates Find WorkThe Lila Thai massage chain is staffed entirely with former convicts. Is the experiment working?7 min read·May 8, 2017----
Katia SavchukinBRIGHT MagazineRefugee Workers Need To Care For Themselves, Too“Aid work requires wildly ferocious self-care, not just outside of work but throughout the day. You are your only refuge.”10 min read·Mar 7, 2017--5--5
Katia SavchukinBRIGHT MagazineThe Tiny NGO That Changed Reporting On Rio’s Favelas During The Olympics“If journalists don’t have access to communities or story ideas, they start producing the same old stereotypes.”7 min read·Aug 24, 2016--2--2
Katia SavchukinBRIGHT MagazineI Traveled Abroad With Habitat For Humanity. Was I Doing Good Or Just Having Fun?I recently came across a grainy photo of myself from a Habitat for Humanity trip to El Salvador nine years ago. I’m grinning in a plastic…8 min read·Mar 3, 2016--10--10