Amy Mackinnon is an award-winning reporter and podcast host based in Washington D.C. Her work has taken her from Siberia to the State Department. She is currently on staff at Foreign Policy where she covers national security and intelligence.

Mackinnon cut her teeth as a journalist in Moscow, as Senior Editor for Coda Story, leading their coverage of the Kremlin’s crackdown on the LGBTQ community. She reported from across Russia for online, video and radio and received a 2018 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia award for her reporting on homophobic vigilantes in St Petersburg. Her work has been published by CNN, Slate, Elemental and VICE, among others, and she is a frequent contributor to MSNBC, WAMU and the BBC World Service. At Foreign Policy, she has interviewed and profiled world leaders and heads of state, and has reported on impeachment trials, Russian mercenaries and the U.S. intelligence community.

She holds an MA in Russian, Central and East European Studies which was jointly awarded by the University of Glasgow and Corvinus University of Budapest, and an MA in Journalism from the Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY where she specialized in health and science reporting. Although she is originally from Scotland, most Americans can understand her accent just fine. Really.

 

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