Yana Kunichoff is a reporter for Chalkbeat Chicago. Prior to joining Chalkbeat in 2018, she produced feature-length documentaries and a pop-culture web series for Scrappers Film Group; worked as a fellow with City Bureau, where she won a March 2016 Sidney Hillman award for an investigation into fatal police shootings; and most recently lived and reported in Moscow, Russia. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, and Chicago magazine, among others.