I’m a Berlin-based journalist. I cover politics, media, and society in Central and Eastern Europe, primarily focusing on the war in Ukraine and how it is changing the region.

Having covered the region for over a decade, I’ve interviewed public figures like Alexei Navalny, profiled imprisoned writers and artists, and covered democracies on the brink of authoritarianism. In reporting on Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I’ve focused on telling the stories of civilians and soldiers in war.

My reporting and analysis has been published in print and online by The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Columbia Journalism Review, The Washington Post, The Parliament Magazine, Fortune, The Daily Beast, Medium, and Al-Jazeera America. I write a regular column for Internationale Politik Quarterly, published by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). During the COVID pandemic, I started a newsletter, Public Sphere, for people trying to understand the crisis of democracy in the United States and abroad. The newsletter features interviews, analysis, and reporting; it now reaches thousands of subscribers.

I have appeared on MSNBC and BBC Radio, and given interviews to media outlets in Ukraine and Poland about U.S. politics. I speak Russian and German proficiently.

In May 2018, I finished an M.A. in Global Affairs at the Jackson School at Yale University. Before that, I worked in Washington as a Politics Reporter and Associate Editor at HuffPost, covering Congress, campaigns, and elections. I also worked for Radio Free Europe as a correspondent.

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